hard disk acces

rootbryan · 09-01-2003, 07:16 PM

How do i do to access to other partitions and hard disks on my computer from linux?

fancypiper · 09-01-2003, 07:24 PM

# Managing drives
LNAG - Accessing my drives
Rute - Device Mounting

rootbryan · 09-01-2003, 07:29 PM

How do i do that?

quatsch · 09-01-2003, 07:38 PM

did you read what fancypiper suggested? You need to figure out the mount command.

What is your distribution, actually? Some distributions can make it pretty easy for you.

rootbryan · 09-01-2003, 07:54 PM

Yes, i red that but i didn 't understood it. I tried using the mount command but the problem is that when i try to mount a FAT partition it says that is not a compatible partition or there is too much to mount. So i want to know how to access to a hard disk with windows installed on it.
My distribution is Slackware 9.0.

quatsch · 09-01-2003, 07:56 PM

which version of windows? If it is xp, 2k, or nt, the file system is most likely ntfs and not vfat.

fancypiper · 09-01-2003, 07:58 PM

Post the output of this to tell us your partitions.

# How are the hard drives partitioned
fdisk -l

rootbryan · 09-13-2003, 10:02 PM

This is my partition list. The problem is with hdb1.

Disk /dev/hdc: 1281 MB, 1281181696 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 2482 1250896+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 912 7325608+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 913 1581 5373742+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1582 2250 5373742+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 2251 2312 498015 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2251 2312 497983+ 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 2434 19551073+ 44 Unknown

fancypiper · 09-14-2003, 12:08 AM

Is that drive/partition supposed to be NTFS and do you have support for it compled into the kernel? If you compiled it as a module, is the module loaded?

lsmod

# Handling NTFS
New Technology FileSystem (NTFS) HOWTOs
Linux NTFS project

If not, apparently you have a drive with one partition that (probably) isn't formatted, since fdisk doesn't recognize any filesystem.

If that is the case, then format the partitions with the chosen filesystem:
mke2fs /dev/hdbX -> ext2
mke2fs -j /dev/hdbX -> ext3
mkswap -> swap
mkreiserfs -> reiserfs
mkfs.xfs -> xfs

rootbryan · 09-18-2003, 10:37 PM

Don´t worry i already solved it. Apparently the first time i tried to mount it, i did it wrong. But now i tried again mounting it as a msdos partition and worked, then i tried also to mount it as a vfat partition and also worked.
Now i only have a little problem: if i do an auto mount an user can´t open it well (it has nothing inside), but with root it is 0K.