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Old 02-27-2006, 03:45 PM   #1
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How do I get access to the other file systems on my HDD?


I have several partition on my linux drive with 3 differnt distros installed. I would like to be able to at least read the files in the other distros.

How can I do this.

I assume I have to do something like mount them but I am not sure how to do this.

I also need to ensure that the relevant partitions are mounted at boot so I would be greatfull if someone could tell me the entries I need to make to my fstab file.

Thanks for any replies to this basic question.

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Old 02-27-2006, 04:38 PM   #2
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If you can't figure it out after issuing and reading "man mount" and "man fstab" and searching here and at Google <Linux>, post back what you read, what you did, what happened; and we'll go from there. Fair enough?
 
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Another thing to watch. You may also need to check if the 3 distro's use a different UID for your user account. Also, you could use the same /home partition on all three distro's. The easiest way would be to have 3 separate partitions, something like /home/username-slack, /home/username-suse, /home/username-xubuntu. The home directory entries in /etc/passwd would need to reflect this.

This would allow you to replace one of the distro's yet retain the /home partition.
Using a symbolic link to a Documents folder and a Downloads folder would allow you to work in whatever distro you are using without having to search another distro's home folder for something.
 
Old 02-27-2006, 05:43 PM   #4
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jschiwal, I have already set up the home folders, they each have their own partition.

What I would like to do is to access the root directory of one distro form another.

How about if I mount them via /mnt/

so, i would;

mkdir /mnt/distro2
mount /mnt/sda3 (assuming distro2 is on sda3)

That way I should be able to access the root of distro2.

I could also put an entry in my fstab
/dev/sda3 /mnt/disrto2 ext2 users,umask=0000 0 0

Will this work?
 
  


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