<span class="gmail_quote"></span>Try to change the following line on you fstab:<span class="q"><br> "/dev/hda3 /dev/hda3 /media/hda3 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007 ,gid=46"<br></span>for that one:<br>"/dev/hda3 /media/hda3 ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0222, nls=utf8 0 0"
<br><br>You may have to refresh your fstab (depends on your distro), you may try "sudo mount -a" in order to refresh your fstab.<br><br>Hope it helps<br><br>Pedro Wald<div><span class="e" id="q_10ffcb66c59b21b6_3">
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote"><br>On 1/7/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Jordan Robison</b> <<a href="mailto:jordan.robison@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jordan.robison@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I want the NFTS drive to automatically mount<br><br># /etc/fstab: static file system information.<br>#<br># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass><br>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
<br>/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1<br>/dev/hdb5 none swap sw 0 0<br>/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
<br>/dev/hda /media/share vfat defaults,umask=0000 0 0<br>/dev/hda3 /dev/hda3 /media/hda3 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 $<div><span><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 1/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
pdwald</b> <<a href="mailto:pdwald@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">pdwald@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Try to determine if the /dev/hda3 exist with "fdisk /dev/hda -l". If /dev/hda3 exists, it will show on in the list. If /dev/hda3 exists and is formated you probably can mount it manually with: "mount -t [filesystem] /dev/hda3 /mnt/[mount point]" whereas [filesystem] is the filesystem utilized by /dev/hda3 and [mount point] is an empty directory wherein the /dev/hd3 would be mounted.
<br>In case of a linux system [filesystem[ would most likely be ext2, ext3, or reiserfs. If it is a windows partition, it could be vfat or ntfs. <br><br>/etc/fstab contains a description of filesystems present and their mount points
<br>/etc/mtab only contain the filesystem that are currently mounted, its output is similar to the one fetched by "mount -v"<br><br><br><br>--<br>Pedro von Wald<br><br><br><div><div><span>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 1/6/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Jordan Robison</b> <<a href="mailto:jordan.robison@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jordan.robison@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div>
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I am having trouble mounting a drive this is the error I am getting when I try to mount the drive.<br><br>[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
<br>mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
<br><br>I am tried to mount this drive for some time now but I always end up in a dead end. I have stuff that I need on it so I don't want to format it. Dose anyone have any suggestions?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><span>
Jordan Robison
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