How do I access another partition?
I am dual booting between openSUSE and Ubuntu. I'm unfamiliar with KDE and can't seem to figure out how to get at my files on the Ubuntu partition.
I've tried just going to /dev/sda2 in konqeror but that doesn't work. Thanks. |
This is a problem of confusing a block device (/dev/sda2) with a file system. In order to look at the filesystem that lives on /dev/sda2, you will need to mount it somewhere within your existing filesystem. The conventional place to mount stuff (at least temporarily) is /mnt. Whatever is in the /mnt folder will be hidden when you mount a new filesystem there, so you might want to create a new directory, say
/mnt/tmp, and then mount the OpenSUSE filesystem on your Ubuntu system. Very probably, after you have created the directory /mnt/tmp, the command Code:
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/tmp |
Yep just fallow dkm999 advise,
commands as root, Code:
# mkdir /mnt/tmp |
That worked. Thanks very much! I'd kind of like the stuff to be in more of a permanent location tho - any tips on how I'd do that? Can I have it so it always mounts to a folder in my home directory?
I've tried stuff like mount /dev/sda2/home/ /home/ubuntu ubuntu is the folder I created in my home dir. I get various errors, one of them is /home/ubuntu is not a mount point. All my music and pictures are on that other partition and I'd like them more readily available than going to /mnt/tmp |
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mount /dev/sda2 /home/ubuntu If you want this to happen each time you boot then you will have to edit your /etc/fstab It would look something like this Code:
/dev/sda2 /home/ubuntu ext3 defaults 1 1 NOTE: It would be smart to make a backup of your fstab incase something goes wrong. as root do # cp /etc/fstab fstab.old |
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