Re: What have i to change ?

From: anc (anc_at_nospam.co.uk)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:34:13 +0000

JM Remacle wrote:

> For windows partitions i have the following sentence in fstab (suse 9.2)
> /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>
> At boot i have the following message for these partitions
> FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
> filesystem will be case sensitive!
>
> What can write in fstab ?
> These sentences were in suse 9.1 and did not cause warnings.
> Thank you
> JM

Change the line as follows
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users 0 0

You do not need an iocharset or umask to read a fat32 partition.

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