acess is denied

[smeezekitty]

on linux:
when i am not on a root shell
if i type cd /mnt/hda3 i get Access is denied
i dont know why that is -- /dev/hda3 is mounted as /mnt/hda3 (70MB fat16 fs)
how do i remove the Acess is denied besides loggin in as root

[Salmon Trout]

edit fstab

[smeezekitty]

heres my fstab i have no idea what it is what it does or what to edit:

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/dev/hda1  /  ext2  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /mnt/auto/floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/auto/cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/mnt/hda3/knoppix.swp swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=1001,gid=50 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/nul /mnt/._ ext2 noauto,users,exec


[Salmon Trout]

The fstab file is most commonly used by the mount command, which reads the fstab file to determine which options should be used when mounting the specified device.

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# device name   mount point     fs-type      options                                        dump fsck
/dev/hda3       /mnt/hda3       vfat         noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=1001,gid=50    0    0
See here

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Read through the excellent explanation and you should see what you need to do.

Make a copy of the fstab file first

Why don't you change noauto to auto in the options? Then it should mount at startup.

[smeezekitty]

the reason its set at noauto is because the OS set it that way
what my problem is because i didnt make it clear the first time is

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root@box#mount /dev/hda3
root@box#cd /mnt/
root@box#exit
dsl@box$cd hda3
Access is denied <---- whats up with this
dsl@box$