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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Please help. 

Everything works fine with Ubuntu 8.10 (from Super Ubuntu) except every time I start it up I have to mount my second hard drive and it won't stay mounted or mount automatically.  Maybe my problem is I've got the drive formatted in fat32 (so I can use it with my windows computers if need be); any ideas?  

61 posted on 03/15/2009 8:54:40 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama
Looking at the Ubuntu Forums...found this...maybe the suggestions would help:

I've installed Xubuntu 8.10 on my computer but i cant mount fat32 drives, i need the permission to the read and write on that drives

62 posted on 03/15/2009 9:38:25 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: expat_panama
From this note at the link above :

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usually when you can't mount a fat16 or fat32 drive read/write it's because there's errors on the drive. try running dosfsck on it and see if it works normally after that.

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You might see what dosfsck does for you also....

63 posted on 03/15/2009 9:48:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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