[NTLUG:Discuss] fstab entry for a Windoze partition

[Wayne Dahl]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:28, terry wrote:
> Wayne Dahl wrote:
> 
> >Hi guys.  I just installed the latest version of Wine (wine-20030508) on
> >my computer running RH 8.0 and noticed that it didn't recognize the
> >Windoze partition because it didn't find an entry for it in the fstab. 
> >I've wondered about that before...what is the correct entry for a Win98
> >partition in the fstab?  
> >
> Assuming your MS Windows partition is hda1:
> /dev/hda1   /mnt/hda1   vfat rw,defaults 0 0
> should do it.

Ok, I tried that and on bootup, when Linux tries to mount the local
filesystem, I get an error that the mountpoint /mnt/hda1 does not exit. 
When I attempt to mount it from a shell, this is the error I get...

[root at crtntx1-ar6-4-64-082-233 dev]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
mount: mount point /mnt/hda1 does not exist

>From one of the books I have, I modified the above fstab entry to look
like this...

/dev/hda1	/mnt/windows	vfat	defaults,rw 0 0

and I still get the error message that the mountpoint /mnt/windows does
not exit.

What am I doing wrong here?  The entry is in the fstab, is there
someplace else you have to create the actual mountpoints?  The way I
understand it, the mountpoint is the file you actually want to mount and
on a Windoze box, if I wanted to mount the root directory, what would I
use for the mountpoint?  I understand /mnt/windows (would be the windows
directory) or /mnt/my_files (a directory called my_files), etc.

Again, any help would be appreciated.  I can't believe I'm not getting
this.  :P

Thanks again, 

Wayne