Unable to mount a secondary HD

Tom "Techno" Earl · 10-08-2007, 06:13 AM

Hey,

Just been trying to mount a second hard drive in Fedora Core,

I have edited /etc/fstab

I have tried using the mount command,

tried rebooting, tried setting the drive as master and slave.

The second drive contains a copy of Windows XP that I would very much like to be able to mount on my linux system to copy files over,

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Tom

reddazz · 10-08-2007, 06:45 AM

Run the command "fdisk -l" as root and post back the output.

Tom "Techno" Earl · 10-08-2007, 06:50 AM

the output is:

bash: fdisk: command not found

Thanks for the reply

ghostdancer · 10-08-2007, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom "Techno" Earl

the output is:

bash: fdisk: command not found

Thanks for the reply

You must run the command as root. If you did not install fdisk, then get the installer CD and install it.

Tom "Techno" Earl · 10-08-2007, 07:08 AM

I have run the command as root, checked that it is installed, and checked for updates, and still nothing :-P

ghostdancer · 10-08-2007, 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom "Techno" Earl

I have run the command as root, checked that it is installed, and checked for updates, and still nothing :-P

Maybe is the path not set correctly. Try:

Code:

$> /sbin/fdisk -l

reddazz · 10-08-2007, 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom "Techno" Earl

I have run the command as root, checked that it is installed, and checked for updates, and still nothing :-P

You must switch to root using "su -" and not just "su" if you want to inherit roots path.

pixellany · 10-08-2007, 07:31 AM

Fedora "hides" certain system commands (those in /sbin). Annoying......

In addition to solutions already given, you can add /sbin to your PATH variable. To do this permanently, you probably have to edit one of the startup scripts.

Tom "Techno" Earl · 10-18-2007, 01:51 PM

Code:

Disk /dev/hdb: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1       20022   160826683+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 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/sda1   *           1          10       80293+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2              11         141     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             142         256      923737+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4             257        9729    76091872+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5             257        7436    57673318+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            7437        8480     8385898+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7            8481        8741     2096451   83  Linux
/dev/sda8            8742        9002     2096451   83  Linux
/dev/sda9            9003        9104      819283+  83  Linux

That is the output of the command, the path was wrong

reddazz · 10-18-2007, 08:56 PM

Edit /etc/fstab and add an entry similar to the one below

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Tom "Techno" Earl · 10-19-2007, 06:04 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, the system is now trying to boot the hd, but it is saying that it has an unknown filesystem, I have done some research and it seems that this version of Linux does not have support for NTFS file systems...

Does anybody have any good software that I could use without having to recompile the kernel?

Thanks

Tom

reddazz · 10-19-2007, 10:40 AM

You need to install a package called ntfs-3g. I think this package is automatically installed in Fedora 7, but I am not absolutely positive.

saikee · 10-19-2007, 10:54 AM

No it doesn't. I have to build it into FC7 and FC6 by command

Code:

yum -y install ntfs-3g

ntfs-3g is not available to FC4 and older. (possibly FC5 too but can't be sure)

If the OP's intention is to copy the files only and the destination is a fat32 partition then there would be no need to install ntfs-3f, which is to assist writing on ntfs partitions. All modern Linux has no problem in reading a ntfs partition.

If this is the case the reddazz's instruction modified to

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /media/windows -t ntfs defaults 0 0

will fire it up.

I mark the modification red.