Mounting drive

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Richard Barmann wrote:

>On Saturday 04 June 2005 09:36 am, James Wilkinson wrote:
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>>Richard Barmann wrote:
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>>>mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is mounted on /media/windows
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>>Reads like a permission problem to me: what does
>>ls -l /media/windows
>>show you?
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>I can go to permisions in /media/windows as root and modify them.
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>>You might try something like a
>>sudo su -
>>to login as root and see if you can access it as root.
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>When I try to mount the drive I get "Could not mount device.
>The reported error was:
>mount: can't find /dev/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"
>When I go to ect/ there is NO file fstab or mtab to edit.
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Hi Richard,
try  in terminal  cd / 
then Sudo gedit etc/fstab
you will need to add the line
/dev/hda1       /windows        vfat    rw,umask=000,users,auto   0       0
this works for me.
hope this helps
take Care
Winton