Any Linux geeks out there?

Question

I have a computer with Linux (Fedora Core5) on it and I'm looking to automount a drive (FAT32) in the system. Here's the parameters.

The directory is /dev/hda3
The mount point is /mnt/data

How do I do that in autofs and is there a good gui for autofs? I am stumped trying to configure this in command line or in the files.

Thanks

Can you detail this out for me?

Answer 1

in /etc/fstab (of course)

/dev/hda3 /mnt/data vfat defaults 0 0


start a shell (zsh) and type (e.g.)
MY-PC> vi /etc/fstab
Shift + G
Shift + O (the letter)
(past in the line from above)
ESCape key
:wq (this is colon + the letter w + the letter q)
MY-PC> mount -a

and it will be available after every reboot, automatically.

Answer 2

put the fstype field as vfat or auto, not fat32, in fact vfat contains all fat code for all kinds of fat.

File is /etc/fstab