On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 01:11, Michael Havens wrote:
> bmike1@bmike1:~$ su
> Password:
> root@bmike1:/home/knoppix# updatedb
> /usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: none: No such file or directory
> root@bmike1:/home/knoppix# jpico /etc/mtab
> /etc/mtab		Row 1	Col 1		0:22		Ctrl-G for help
> /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
> /dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /proc/bus/usb none usbfs rw 0 0
> capifs /dev/capi capifs rw,mode=0666 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat rw 0 0
> 
> This is probably where I make it so I can pull files out of hda1. Can I make 
> it so I can copy files out of there but not write to the area?
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1 - probably a bad idea to use editor on mtab file. This file is auto
created by mounts either from fstab or by manually mounting command.

2 - man mount - how are you mounting /dev/hda1 - through fstab? change
it to r instead of r/w and it should make it read only.

3 - perhaps it is at this point, you should also consider the 'user'
option so that you can mount it as your 'login' (user) and not as root
so you will not have any issues with permissions (see previous email)

Craig