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Jeff Fuller ultron33 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 03:36:29 UTC 2005


Thanks for the reply but i dont know much about /etc/fstab etc,(i would
probably stuff something up) just thought there might be a quick and
easy way?

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 21:27 -0500, 'Forum Post wrote:
> Thats sitting there probably because fstab specifies it as auto.
> In you /etc/fstab replace thw windows mount line with something like:
> 
> 
> Code:
> --------------------
>     /dev/sda1       /windows        ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=022        0       0
> --------------------
> 
> 
> the 'user' tells the os any user can mount it
> the 'noauto' tells the os not to mount it at bootup
> 
> However please keep in ming that once you do that you will have to
> mount it manually to use it.
> 
> On second thought post the contents of your /etc/fstab file so that I
> can suggest the exact, correct changes.
> 
> HTH
> AM
> 
> 
> -- 
> amohanty
> 





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