On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 02:08 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,noauto,user,uid=512,gid=1002 1 2 ^ ^ really really bad idea -------------------------------------|-|
If you say so. Did I mention I was a newbie? I'm a newbie. I only put in the 1 and 2 because that's what another guy on this list told me to do. I have no idea what they mean.
filesystem does not need to be dumped (field 5) and not need fsck'ing (field 6) - it is vfat right?
If vfat is the same as fat32, then yes.
I'm a little scared to go ahead with this, because I don't want to lose any more data. If I change the last two numbers, will I at least be safe from having Linux try and make changes to the hard drive?
---- Well you are asking something that I have never tried (and clearly won't at this stage) but I would have expected that the fsck subroutine should have recognized that it was a vfat partition and simply aborted rather than try to repair it - but evidently, it was trying to be helpful and repair the damaged filesystem. ;-)
I apologize for whomever told you to put the '1 2' for the fifth/sixth fields in fstab for a vfat partition. That probably wasn't a very good idea.
As for being scared...you are mounting as rw which means read/write. You could mount ro (read only) but of course, then you couldn't write stuff to it.
Craig