On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:18 -0600, dan.trainor wrote: > 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? > > > > Dave > > Hello, Dave - > > man fstab: > > "The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to > determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. > The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, > and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within > a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different > drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available > in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of > zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need > to be checked." > > You wouldn't want to fsck a vfat drive. I've never done it before. I > don't even know if it's *possible*, even if there was a way to force it. > Hope that helps. It is certainly possible, and that's how it works on my system (thus the sample fstab line); however, should have noted that dosfsck is alpha. Works-for-me but YMMV. Sorry 'bout that Dave. # fsck /dev/hda2 fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN Warning: FAT32 support is still ALPHA. /dev/hda2: 39084 files, 1281584/4094597 clusters # rpm -qif `which dosfsck` Name : dosfstools Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.8 Vendor: CentOS Release : 15 Build Date: Mon 21 Feb 2005 07:17:49 PM EST Install Date: Sat 18 Jun 2005 09:25:02 PM EDT Build Host: bhrama.build.karan.org Group : Applications/System Source RPM: dosfstools-2.8-15.src.rpm Size : 69390 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sat 26 Feb 2005 03:34:40 PM EST, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821 Packager : Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> Summary : Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux. Description : The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies. Phil