permision denied to write in a partition mounted at startup

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:05:58PM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> also i just noticed your line in etc/fstab/
> there is no moint point.
> try this line instead.
>  
> /dev/hda5     /D    vfat  defaults     0   0

You're generally on the right track, but it's a bad idea to
create new directories in the root. Accepted practice is,
instead, to create new mount points within /mnt -- so in the
example you gave above, you'd do

/dev/hda5     /mnt/D    vfat  defaults     0   0

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