mounting

stress_junkie · 07-11-2007, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lordicon

for everything in fdisk that i attempt to do i'm asked for a partition number 1-4 i am not quite sure how to find which partition number i am supposed to use

Command (m for help): t ext3
Partition number (1-4):

i am aware of the fact that i am not typing things in right at all times... i am afraid though of messing something up

Yes I forgot that when you start fdisk the first thing that you have to do is select a disk, then select a partition. Use partition number one. You do not have to delete the existing partition. You can just change the type to 83, then write the partition table to the disk. Then use mkfs.

Don't worry about messing up. As long as you have selected the correct disk you are ok. You could start fdisk as follows to be sure that you have the right disk. Then you just select partition one, change the type to 83, and write the partition table to disk, then quit fdisk.

Code:

fdisk /dev/sdb

lordicon · 07-11-2007, 07:11 PM

now that i have mounted it... i think.... where would i find it.. and/or how do i access it?

thanks for everything thus far btw.

Simon Bridge · 07-12-2007, 04:27 AM

You should know, you typed in the "mount" command!

stress_junkie · 07-12-2007, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lordicon

now that i have mounted it... i think.... where would i find it.. and/or how do i access it?

thanks for everything thus far btw.

You can see what partitions are mounted by entering the mount command with no parameters.

Code:

mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)

Here you can see that I have the third partition of the first hard drive (/dev/hda3) mounted as the root of the file system (/).