This is a hardware dilemma, sort of...

In my current setup, I have two hard drives.

1) a 30-gig HD (my boot drive) where i have both linux and windows installed in a dual-booting operation

2) a 200-gig HD that I use for storage


Currently, I can access windows files while running linux through the /mnt/win directory...

How can I go about accessing files from the physically separate drive?

Thanks in advance to all the helpful contributive pros out there.

Hi mate,

Nearly the same setup I'm using at home

All you need to do is mount the 200GB drive. As soon as you mount it you will be able to access it.

For example if your 200GB drive is /dev/hdb (primary slave)

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage

you can also put in a switch to tell it exactly what filesystem you are using, if you leave it blank it will try and find out itself.

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage

Just make sure /mnt/storage exists before you try and mount it there.

>Craig

Thanks for the reply. =)

Unfortunately, when I try to specify the particular filesystem type, or even when I don't, the shell returns an error, saying I may have an incompatible filesystem type.

Currently my storage drive is formated as a fat32 filesystem. Any other suggestions?


Cheers.

How is the drive partitioned? Need to be logged in as root and specify the correct device for your 200gb drive

fdisk -l /dev/hdx (thats a small L)

Sorry to be so persistenly helpless, but nothing I've tried from the past posts seem to work.

When I enter:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdf2 /mnt/storage

I get the following error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdf2,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)

and when I try to use fdisk:

[root@localhost aueda]# fdisk -l /dev/hdf2
bash: fdisk: command not found

I find it odd that my shell does not recognize fdisk...is it not supported by the redhat 9 gnome shell?

Thanks for your enduring patience.

If you use just su then you are logged in as rrot but your not using root's environment and therefore fdisk in not in the path.

Use su - instead. Or use the full path /sbin/fdisk.

hey, i get that same error did you figure out ehat to do, i also am trying to mount a 200gb fat32 partion with a promise ata card. even when i log in as root i get that error however i have no problem using fdisk

heres a screen cap of what happens to me
http://members.rogers.com/heatw/helpme.jpg

thanks

heatw,
I've seen previous posts that indicated problems with mounting large vfat partitions.