Mounting a fat32 partition...

[Erik Bågfors]

DO NOT run nautilus as root.  Very very big mistake..  undo it now!

Instead, put a line like the following in /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1       /windows        ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=002  0       0

then run "sudo mkdir /windows"

Now any user can mount the filesystem and browse the files,  either
with computer -> Disks and double click on windows or typing "mount
/windows"

Regards,
Erik


On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:38:32 +0700, Phichai Phuechmongkol
<pichaip at asianet.co.th> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 18:19 -0400, chip wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 05:10 +0700, pp wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yes,just put the correct type -vfat - in /etc/fstab  like this :
> > > >
> > > >  (as in my computer  hda5 is a fat32 fs)
> > > >
> > > >  # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > > >
> > > >  /dev/hda5         /mnt/k                   vfat        defaults
> > > >      0               0
> > >
> > >
> > Huh, wierd thing though...
> >
> > I can now mount it, but I can't access any of the files. I double-click
> > them, and nothing happens. If I right-click them, they disappear.
> >
> > Strange...
> 
> >
> >
> I understand that it may cause by the mount option and/or you did not
> open the nautilus file manager with the root privilege. Under the
> default security of Ubuntu Linux system,you need to be root to
> read&write to other mount partition or you need to be root to
> change the mount option and/or the owner/group of such mount partition.
> It's a good default security system, not a strange things.
> You may do as follow :
> 
> 1.You need to mount a partition with the option defaults or rw
> (read&write) as mentioned above.
> 2.open terminal and then su to be root : # su
> 3.from the root terminal start nautilus : # nautilus
> 
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