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[SOLVED] VFAT file system mounting gives inconsistent results
jur:
I am having trouble with thunderbird; it thinks my mail directory is not mounted when it actually is.
Before opening tb, I mount the drive where the mail is:
--- Code: ---sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/mail
--- End code ---
This works - I can browse the mail directory.
But thunderbird reports an error. (The reported error seems unrelated but from experience I know unmounted data/profile is what causes this error report.)
Previously, I had the data directory on an ntfs drive which I mounted with
--- Code: ---sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /mnt/mail
--- End code ---
which worked.
Now for the inconsistency:
If I FIRST mount /dev/sda2 on mnt/sda2 using rox by clicking on sda2, then tb proceeds fine.
However, if I FIRST mount /dev/sda2 on mnt/sda2 by typing
--- Code: ---sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
--- End code ---
, then as before, tb fails.
In all of the above cases, the file system is actually mounted as I can browse sda2 using rox. But tb proceeds ONLY if I first mounted sda2 by clicking on it in rox.
Help please?
Edited title by adding vfat
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: jur on January 11, 2010, 02:56:47 PM ---I am having trouble with thunderbird; it thinks my mail directory is not mounted when it actually is.
--- End quote ---
Please specify version. Is it thunderbird or thunderbird3 or both?
gerald_clark:
try specifying a userid during the mount, as vfat has no concept of file ownership or permissions.
jur:
--- Quote from: bmarkus on January 11, 2010, 02:58:45 PM ---
--- Quote from: jur on January 11, 2010, 02:56:47 PM ---I am having trouble with thunderbird; it thinks my mail directory is not mounted when it actually is.
--- End quote ---
Please specify version. Is it thunderbird or thunderbird3 or both?
--- End quote ---
Both are doing the same thing.
roberts:
Stop using Microsoft file systems! They do not fully support *nix.
http://www.osnews.com/story/9681/The_vfat_file_system_and_Linux/page1/
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