Cant mount HD

mindspin · 09-14-2004, 07:00 AM

Hi

Im having a problem, i got a dual boot Laptop with XP / Fedora 2 running on it. When im in linux i would like to access my mp3's. But somehow im not able to mount my disk in linux...

What should be the right command to mount a FAT32 disk?

btw i have tried locating the disk using the fdisk command but that doesnt seem to work

Tnx

Mindspin

Baldrick65 · 09-14-2004, 07:08 AM

First off, make a place to mount the Win drive. From a console ...

Code:

su
<enter root password>
mkdir /mnt/win

then edit the /etc/fstab file and put this line in ...

Code:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat users,umask=000,rw,auto 0 0

That will mount the win drive at /mnt/win for all users at boot time.

Baldrick

mindspin · 09-14-2004, 07:27 AM

I did exactly what you did, but somehow while booting into fedora an error is displayed which says something like the filesystem is not right, maybe youre trying to mount an logical drive instead of blabla... (dont know the exact error, somewhere to check?)

So im not getting it mounted right now... what to do? try?

mindspin · 09-14-2004, 07:30 AM

hmm, this is the error i get while booting:
mount: Bad filesystem, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2
or too many mounted filesystems (arent you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)

Baldrick65 · 09-14-2004, 07:32 AM

Are you sure the WinXP partition is FAT32? Another question I have to ask is what's the output of

Code:

/sbin/fdisk -l

Run that command as root from a terminal, copy the text and post it here. I just took a guess that your WinXP partition was hda1, but I could've been wrong.

Baldrick

mindspin · 09-14-2004, 07:38 AM

I cant access the internet from my laptop (posting this form another pc), so pasting is a bit tricky. But im gonna try giving you the most relevant info...

/dev/hda1/ * HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6/ W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7/ HPFS/NTFS

the rest of the partitions i see are linux partitions, so i doubt youll need that info

. But i guess ill have to make hda2 in the fstab hda6. It should work then?

Gonna try right now.

mindspin · 09-14-2004, 07:42 AM

yeah, i got it working right now.
Thnx for helping me out with the fdisk -l thingie (forgot to get root first

)
gonna enjoy my mp3's now

Baldrick65 · 09-14-2004, 07:42 AM

OK, so I'm guessing that you want to mount the /dev/hda6/ W95 FAT32 partition. In that case, put this in /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/hda6 /mnt/win vfat users,umask=000,rw,auto 0 0

That's all there is to it

But if you want to mount the NTFS partition, then add this:

Code:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win ntfs umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

This will be READ ONLY.

Baldrick

jim41025 · 09-14-2004, 01:33 PM

Okay, so I'm trying to do something similar, but getting nowhere.

I'm working on a dual-boot desktop PC, and trying to mount an NTFS partition within RedHat 9.0. When I issue the command:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs

I get the error:

mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

Now, I'm about as newbie as it gets when it comes to Linux/Unix, but I did think to check:

My NTFS partition is, in fact, /dev/hda1 (according to /sbin/fdisk -l).
The directory /mnt/ntfs does exist.
I'm logged into the current shell as root.
The man pages for the mount command list ntfs as an available file system.

(I know, the error's rather straightforward, but you never know....)

My kernel is version 2.4.20-8. Do I need to upgrade/downgrade/recompile my kernel? I couldn't find any reference to issues mounting ntfs partitions in the errata for my kernel.

Baldrick65 · 09-15-2004, 06:02 AM

Quote:

mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

Bingo ... you need to compile NTFS support into your kernel. I'm not sure what the deal is with RedHat and not including NTFS support in the default kernel. Do a quick search on RedHat and NTFS here and see what you get.

Baldrick