Default filesystems

goldenratiophi · 12-18-2004, 06:10 PM

Hello,

I installed Fedora Core 3 and when I got to the partitioning part, I just let the installer remove all the partitions let it partition the hard drive automatically.

Now I've been playing with some LiveCDs (SLAX in particular, though I don't think it matters) and it automatically mounts /dev/hda1 to /mnt/disc0part1 which contains things like grub, lost+found, vmzlinuz .... I want to get to my home directory. Is my home directory on /dev/hda2 or something else? How do I mount that to get to it? I tried "mkdir /mnt/harddrive ; mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/harddrive", but it said it couldn't determine the filesystem type. Help!!!

musicman_ace · 12-18-2004, 06:18 PM

type df -hT

lowercase h
capitol T

That will tell you where mount points are and what filesystem

goldenratiophi · 12-18-2004, 06:28 PM

Thanks! I'll go try it.

goldenratiophi · 12-20-2004, 02:50 PM

Is there a way I can do this without having to access FC3? FC3 freezes when it boots so I have to retrieve some files from SLAX or Knoppix, neither of which can 'see' the hard drive partition with my home directory.

musicman_ace · 12-20-2004, 03:27 PM

Are those partitions mounted?
Using a bootable rescue disk like knoppix should be able to mount all linux filesystems

drj000 · 12-20-2004, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by goldenratiophi
Hello,

I installed Fedora Core 3 and when I got to the partitioning part, I just let the installer remove all the partitions let it partition the hard drive automatically.

It probably created a Logical volume with the rest of the drive. That's what it did for me. I don't know much about mounting logical volumes, but maybe that info can help someone else help you.

Try mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 mountpoint

goldenratiophi · 12-20-2004, 03:43 PM

Logical volumes... that's familliar! Yes! That is what it did!

Now what do I do with this knowlege

There is no /dev/VolGroup00 though...

EDIT: from fdisk:

Code:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         203      102280+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             204      119150    59949288   8e  Linux LVM

EDIT AGAIN: musicman_ace, one partition is mounted, however, it does not have my home directory in it.