Mounting hard disks & partitions

dbong · 01-16-2004, 10:53 AM

I'm probably spoiled by Windows, but is there a way to permanently mount drives
and/or partitons and browse the folders like Windows Explorer does? It seems
like a relatively simple thing to do, yet I don't know how. Thanks in advance.

dbong

fancypiper · 01-16-2004, 11:15 AM

Got specifics for us? Partition? Filesystem? Your /etc/fstab file?

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dbong · 01-16-2004, 11:30 AM

I'm trying to mount a 2nd 120 GB HDD that's broken into 4 aprroximately 30 GB
FAT 32 partitions. I'm guessing that I need to know how Linux sees these partitions
(as hda2,3,4 etc) and add that info to the /etc/fstab file? Here's a copy of my fstab
file as it stands right now:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Thanks for your reply

fancypiper · 01-16-2004, 12:16 PM

Where is the drive connected?

If you don't know, post the output of

fdisk -l

My /etc/fstab:

Code:

# Celeron 850 tinwhistle /etc/fstab file
/dev/hda7	/               reiserfs	defaults	1 1
/dev/hda3	/boot           ext3		defaults	1 2
none            /dev/pts        devpts		gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/hdc1	/home           ext3		defaults	1 2
#/dev/hda9	/home           reiserfs	defaults	1 2
#/dev/hda6	/mnt/gentoo     reiserfs	defaults	1 2
/dev/hda1	/mnt/win2k	ntfs		defaults	0 0
/dev/hda2	/mnt/fat32	vfat		defaults	0 0
none            /proc           proc		defaults	0 0
none            /dev/shm        tmpfs		defaults	0 0
/dev/hdb1	/pub            ext3		defaults	1 2
/dev/hda5	swap            swap		defaults	0 0
/dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	iso9660		noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy     auto		noauto,owner    0 0

My partitioning scheme:

Code:

Fri Jan 16 12:22pm root@tinwhistle ~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39535 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *         1     39535  19925608+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      1825  14655816    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          1825      2433   4883760    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3          2433      2446    107887+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4          2447      4865  19430617+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5          2447      2516    562243+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          2517      3368   6843658+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          3369      3795   3429846   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          3796      4222   3429846   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          4223      4865   5164866   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4867 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      4867  39094146   83  Linux