On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:56 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > Thanks for following up. > > >possibilities: > > > >- mount is not made by same user doing cd /mnt/windows > > > > > I edited /etc/fstab as root, and ran the mount -a command as root. > But I have a regular user account "dave" for day to day use. > But whether I am accessing /mnt/windows as root or as dave, it comes up > empty. > > >- mount is not made by same user running gnome/nautilus > > > > > This is the case. Root is mounting the drive, and dave is running > gnome/nautilus. > But I'm a little confused. Only root has the permission to edit > /etc/fstab or run the mount command, so how would dave access these > functions? > In any case, as mentioned, even root finds the directory empty. > > >- mount references /dev/hda1 but hard drive has different device > >assignment > > > > > I assumed it was /dev/hda1 because this is what fdisk told me: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 3649 29310561 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > > >dmesg| less #check to see if the drive is assigned a different letter > > > > > This came up with a bunch of stuff. Is this what I'm looking for?: > hda: max request size: 128KiB > hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63, UDMA(66) > hda: cache flushes not supported > hda: hda1 > > >df -h shows mounted filesystems and usage > > > > > [root at localhost ~]# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb1 28G 20G 6.6G 76% / > none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm > > >are you user 512? > > > > > I don't know. But I want any user of this computer - in other words, me, > regardless of what permissions setting or log in account I happen to be > using - to access the drive. > > >are you running mount as yourself and not root? > > > > > This is what happens if I do: > [dave at localhost ~]$ mount -a > mount: only root can do that > As mentioned before, I was doing all the configurations as root, because > I assumed I had to be root in order to be mucking about with the drives > and whatnot. > > >has the drive been fixed with scandisk/checkdisk since the assault by > >linux fsck? > > > > > Heh heh... "assault". I like that. > Anyway... I think so. I ran Windows, and it immediately complained about > the disk and ran scandisk which seemed to have worked as Windows could > read the files okay, or at least run the programs associated with those > files. A lot of files got "assaulted", so at this point I can't be 100% > sure that they've all been corrected. But from a Windows world point of > view the disk has been scanned and corrected. > > >short answer, it shouldn't make a difference being connected via > >internal IDE or external firewire except as external firewire, it would > >be assigned something more like /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda > > > > > Okay, good to know it's not a connection issue, and more likely a > settings issue. Dave- Rather than editing /etc/fstab and adding a lot of mount flags to the mix, start with the basics. Can you do the following as root: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows If yes, then it is a matter of working out the proper flags. If not, then the file system could be corrupt. When you try the mount command above, do you see any errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg output? -- Sean