On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:55 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> Whoah! Totally scary and not good.
> I tried this:
>
> >/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,noauto,user,uid=512,gid=1002 1 2
> >
> >
> And then I tried "mount -a". It returned not errors, so figured it
> worked. I went to the Nautilus file browser, and saw that the 30 GB
> FAT32 HD had an icon. I clicked to open it, but it gave an error similar
> to before.
>
> I figured I'd reboot, to make sure that the whole system was caught up
> on the new settings.
>
> But...
>
> When I rebooted, somewhere alon the way, it started saying things like
> "file XXX is nnnn bytes, truncating to n2n2n2n2 bytes..."
> It was going through my FAT32 HD and truncating files!
>
> What is up with that?
>
> Not knowing what else to do, I hard reset the machine. I rebooted into
> Windows, and sure enough some files on the FAT32 disk were corrupted.
>
> So then I had to boot back into CentOS without it messing with my files.
> After some trial and error, I found that if I booted with the rghb quiet
> option off, I could hit ctrl+C and stop it from truncating too many
> files (but still some!).
>
> This is totally undesirable. I have data on that hard drive I can't
> afford to lose. I want to access it with CentOS, not destroy it.
>
> What's going on?
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man fstab
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,noauto,user,uid=512,gid=1002 1 2
^ ^
really really bad idea -------------------------------------|-|
filesystem does not need to be dumped (field 5) and not need fsck'ing
(field 6) - it is vfat right?
they should be 0's
Craig