[ale] File systems problem.
Mike Kachline
kachline at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jun 15 01:03:02 EDT 1998
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Michael S. Donelan wrote:
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> device, I get the error message "hdc is not /etc/fstab or mtab". I didn't
> see a response to this question in the newsgroup and was wondering if it
> was posted or someone could help me with this problem.
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Though I don't remember the previous posting about not being able
to mount a drive, my $0.02 would be to do as follows:
. Do a "cat /etc/fstab" and see what shows up. Do you see
something to the tune of:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
If so, then just doing a:
#mount /mnt/cdrom
would automagically mount the CD-Rom device (/dev/cdrom) to the
directory /mnt/cdrom.
If you don't see such a line, add one to /etc/fstab. The above
line would be used for your CD-Rom. If you know your CD-Rom is /dev/hdc,
then you can just replace the "/dev/cdrom" with "/dev/hdc".
In the case of a floppy, you can add a line to the tune of:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
to your /etc/fstab. By doing this, if you type "mount
/mnt/floppy", your floppy device (/dev/fd0) should get mounted to the
directory /mnt/floppy. Of course, you need to create the directories
/mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom beforehand.
Hope this helps,
- Mike
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