Another quick question

[CCrunnernb]

I have a hard drive partitioned.. one of the mount points is /storage.. I would like to make it /home/nick/storage.. how could i got about doing this!

And thanks to the people that helped me earlier.. it all worked like a charm

 

[Panther505]

edit fstab and change /storage to /home/nick/storage. make sure that you create the storage directory in your home directory. then as root so an

umount -a -which will unmount all your partitions that the system can
mount -a and your storage partition should mount in your home dir..

To check

mount should list all of your partitions and where they are mounted.

 

[CCrunnernb]

ok i mounted a samba share.. but linux won't read the windows files, it says there is none, when there are.. would the command above unmount that also? And then should I delete that in the fstab?

 

[Panther505]

yep

umount -a will unmount everything in the fstab

mount -a will remount everything in fstab.

I would delete the samba share out of fstab if you have it there. It would be better to write a little mount script then to do it from fstab especially with the problems that I have seen with SAMBA hanging on boot lately.

 

[CCrunnernb]

why can't i read files in window's shares? And also.. we are converting another machine in my house to linux.. is there a better way to share between the two desktops?

 

[Panther505]

what type of windows box?

What command are you using to mount it?

What user are you using to mount it?

What permissions does the user have on the windows box?

Can you see files on the share from another windows box?

what user are you mounting as? and what user are you trying to ls the files as?

 

[CCrunnernb]

im doing this

go to the file manager, in the toolbar.. where it usually says file:/home/nick I so smb://10.5.9.100/

I see the shared folder, but when i open there is nothing..... this box is a win98.. im going to convert it to linux, just want to get files off it.. then when linux is installed what can i use to share between them?