I was disgusted with Vista so I made the plunge and switched to Fedora, but I'm not a complete Linux newb. This is however, probably a very newb question.

My Setup:
AMD Sempron64 3000+
768mb DDR400
256mb NVidia 6600GT
80gb WD S-Ata HD
160gb Seagate EIDE HD
Fedora Core 6 i386
KDE GUI

For my intial install, I didnt want to lose my windows until I had Fedora set up and I was comfortable with it. Windows was installed on the 80gb SATA drive at the time, so I bought the 160gb EIDE for my Fedora install. So given enough time I decided I was ready to lose Windows for good and put Fedora (and switch from Gnome to KDE as well) onto the SATA drive. So I reinstalled Fedora onto the SATA drive. Which brings me to my problem...how do I access the files that are on the 160gb EIDE drive. All my music/movies etc are on there. The drive is mounted by default, but I cant figure out how to get to the files that are in that partition (sda2). I have tried to umount it, then remount it into a directory (/mnt/sda2) so I would know where it was but no go. When I "umount /dev/sda2" it says "umount: /dev/sda2: not mounted". When I enter "mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2/" it responds with "mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /mnt/sda2/ busy"

So is it something that is so simple that I am completely overlooking it?

Post the contents of /etc/fstab so we can see what the current state of things is.

It's hard to know from your description. Please post the output of

and as root:

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)


Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9729 78148161 8e Linux LVM

Do you have ntfs support on your Linux system ? I'm sure if it was a windows drive it has an NTFS File system..

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/


Please post your question in a single forum only..

No its not a Windows drive. Its been partitioned for linux from the beginning. I know the data is there, I just cant figure out how to access it. I'm looking for the equivalent Windows actions of switching from 'C:' to 'D:' that will display the file structure that is already in place on that drive.

What I did do was overwrite the Windows install on the 80gb drive. The 160gb already had Fedora installed on it. Only now I cant figure out how to pull up the 'old' file structure that exists on the 160gb drive.

I figured out it was in the wrong forum already, but there doesnt seem to be a 'delete' option to remove the other one.

Could you post your /etc/fstab file? I don't know myself how to troubleshoot LVM; I've always used old fashioned partitions out of fear of change.

I'm certainly no expert on LVM, but it looks to me like you've got a boot partition and one logical volume. I can't see how Fedora could be booting from the 80 GB, because the last I knew, you couldn't boot from a logical volume.

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

As I was afraid, all that VolGroup/LogVol LVM stuff is gobbledeegook to me. Hopefully someone familiar with LVM can help figure it out.

Yea I'm kind of figuring its got to have something to do with the lVM. I understand what its doing, I just cant convince it to do what I want it to do

Try running this command and post the results.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
215G 19G 186G 10% /
tmpfs 378M 0 378M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 99M 16M 78M 17% /mnt

From the looks of it, the 80 GB and 160 GB were combined into one logical volume.