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