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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:37 PM

I have some fat partitions on my disk that I want to mount at specific
points in my directory tree, one goes at /home/rev24/rev24_nt and the
other goes at /home/rev24/nt.net. In the old days, I just added the
appropriate line to /etc/fstab and when the system booted, it mounted
the partitions right in the right spots. something roughly like:

/dev/hda11 /home/rev24/rev24_nt vfat nosuid 0 0
/dev/hda13 /home/rev24/nt.net vfat nosuid 0 0

I just had to install and build a new system, using CentOS 4.4. I
went to edit /etc/fstab and read something that it was now managed by
fstab-sync, which I first assumed was like vipw, but it isn't. I went
to the man page and saw that it was related to HAL and Googled for
relevant information and found nice overviews, but no indication of
how to say "I want this partition mounted here!"

So, where do I tell the system what I want?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:37 PM

Chris F Clark wrote:
> I have some fat partitions on my disk that I want to mount at specific
> points in my directory tree, one goes at /home/rev24/rev24_nt and the
> other goes at /home/rev24/nt.net. In the old days, I just added the
> appropriate line to /etc/fstab and when the system booted, it mounted
> the partitions right in the right spots. something roughly like:
>
> /dev/hda11 /home/rev24/rev24_nt vfat nosuid 0 0
> /dev/hda13 /home/rev24/nt.net vfat nosuid 0 0
>
> I just had to install and build a new system, using CentOS 4.4. I
> went to edit /etc/fstab and read something that it was now managed by
> fstab-sync, which I first assumed was like vipw, but it isn't. I went
> to the man page and saw that it was related to HAL and Googled for
> relevant information and found nice overviews, but no indication of
> how to say "I want this partition mounted here!"
>
> So, where do I tell the system what I want?

Still in /etc/fstab

#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:38 PM

I wrote:
> > I have some fat partitions on my disk that I want to mount at specific
> > points in my directory tree, one goes at /home/rev24/rev24_nt and the
> > other goes at /home/rev24/nt.net.
....
> > So, where do I tell the system what I want?

Allen Kistler <ackistler@oohay.moc> writes:
> Still in /etc/fstab

Yes, thank you.

It appears that when you reboot the system will also even add the
appropriate "devices" (e.g. /dev/hde6) to the system, once you add the
partitions to the laptop. I haven't added in the fat partitions yet,
but I did add the partitions appearing on my second disk, and although
I had to reboot to see them (simply mounting them didn't work, because
the devices weren't there before the reboot), after rebooting I could
then access them without doing anything else (other than adding the
entries to /etc/fstab before the reboot, oh and adding the directories
to be used as mount points).

That's an acceptable level of complexity for me. Not, the MAKEDEV was
that hard to invoke, but I hadn't done it in over 6 months and I would
have had to look it up in the documentation to remember the right
arguments (and perhaps MAKEDEV isn't even the right name).

#4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:38 PM

I wrote:
....
> It appears that when you reboot the system will also even add the
> appropriate "devices" (e.g. /dev/hde6) to the system, once you add the
> partitions to the laptop.
^^^^^^
I meant added the partitions to the /etc/fstab.

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