How can I make all of my partitions readable when I am booted to my new mandriva installation? Copies of the /etc/fstab files from both my year old mepis and my new mandriva 2006 installations (partitions) are shown below. Why are they so different? When booted to the mepis partition, I can access the other partitions on my system, but when booted to my mandriva partition, I can't mount the other partitions to read or access them. What do I need to do to the mandriva partition so I can mount, read, access, and copy files from the other partitions? $ on mandriva, df shows this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 9.7G 2.2G 7.0G 24% / /dev/hda7 9.7G 3.3G 6.5G 34% /home /dev/hdb1 4.0G 1.3G 2.7G 32% /mnt/windows $ on mandriva, ls -ltr /mnt shows this: total 12 drwxrwxrwx 28 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 windows/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 05:46 cdrom2/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 05:46 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Jan 2 15:23 floppy/ === fstab on my mandriva partition looks like this: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 === fstab on my mepis partition looks like this: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 /dev/hda2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 none /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2 /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 # Dynamic entries /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ext3 noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext3 noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 ext3 noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 ext3 noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 vfat noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ext2 noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb6 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7 ext2 noauto,exec 0 0 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss