Need help to mount windows partitions?

deostroll · 05-15-2009, 05:38 AM

Nautilus is able to find the partitions. But I am not...!! I am looking at performing this exercise via command prompt.

Nylex · 05-15-2009, 06:05 AM

Run "mount" (with no options) to see which partitions are mounted. Run "fdisk -l" to see a list of partitions and their filesystem types (you'll probably need to run "sudo fdisk -l", actually). Use mount to mount the relevant partition (and see the man page for options you can use).

Please give us more info if you want a more detailed answer. What exactly is the problem you're having? Any error messages?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 05-15-2009, 06:08 AM

Also if your windows partitions are ntfs formatted then use the ntfs-3g package to mount them. It should be build in Ibex.

deostroll · 05-15-2009, 06:12 AM

Here is the output of my command prompt:

Code:

deostroll@deostroll-pc:/$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for deostroll: 

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdabadaba

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7833    62918541    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            7834       19456    93361747+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            7834       14360    52428096    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           14361       19456    40933588+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d66ba

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        9376    75312688+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            9377        9729     2835472+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            9377        9729     2835441   82  Linux swap / Solaris
deostroll@deostroll-pc:/$ mount /dev/sda1
mount: can't find /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
deostroll@deostroll-pc:/$

What is the correct command I must type?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 05-15-2009, 06:14 AM

If you want to mount /dev/sda1 on suppose /mnt/sda1 use this command

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

Keep in mind /mnt/sda1 directory should exist.

deostroll · 05-15-2009, 06:20 AM

Getting the following error:

Code:

deostroll@deostroll-pc:/$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
fuse: failed to access mountpoint /mnt/sda1: No such file or directory

linuxlover.chaitanya · 05-15-2009, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya

Keep in mind /mnt/sda1 directory should exist.

Remember this.

deostroll · 05-15-2009, 06:32 AM

Oops forgot that. Thanx. Then again I wonder how does nautilus do the same thing? I had to create a directory in /mnt for this! What will happen the next time I log-on to the system?

linuxlover.chaitanya · 05-15-2009, 06:36 AM

The directory that you created in /mnt will still be there. But it wont get mounted automatically. If you want /dev/sda1 to be mounted when you log in you will need to edit the /etc/fstab file.

Code:

/dev/sda1  /mnt/sda1  ntfs-3g  defaults  0   0

Libu · 05-15-2009, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by deostroll

Oops forgot that. Thanx. Then again I wonder how does nautilus do the same thing? I had to create a directory in /mnt for this! What will happen the next time I log-on to the system?

nautilus most probably would be mounting the drives onto /media/<some directory>. I guess nautilus is doing this using udev rules ? I'm not very sure, somebody else should be able to throw more light on it.