Odd....Help request.

[JoeDude]

That's what I get.

I installed a 20 Gb hard drive to use as storage. I formatted it in Fat32 so my wife could use it as well in windows. But now...whenever I am in Linux, and I click on it, that's what I get. It is fine in windows....anyone know how to fix it?

[Void Main]

What distribution (Deb 4.0?) is this and what does your /etc/fstab contain? You might want an entry that looks something like this:

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/dev/hdb1               /d                      vfat    defaults        0 0


Of course make sure the "/d" directory or whatever your mount point is called is actually there.

[JoeDude]

yup...it's not there! It's Ubuntu 6.06. let me gedit and see what happens!

OK, I did the
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

added /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 vfat defaults 0 0

then I

sudo mkdir /media/hdb1

rebooted

and guess what happened.

Nothing.

Everything worked smoothly...I'm not sure how to take this....

[Void Main]

and guess what happened.

Nothing.

Everything worked smoothly...I'm not sure how to take this....

I'm not 100% sure on this but isn't that how you wanted it to work?

[JoeDude]

That's exactly what I wanted to happen. Which is exactly why it's strange. I must be getting better at this finally!