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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).
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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?
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.
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.
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