mounting hard drive from live CD?

ocicat · 05-31-2007, 10:19 PM

I made the boneheaded mistake of leaving ~/.profile with incorrect syntax before closing down Ubuntu 7.04. Consequently, I can't log back in, & I didn't enable root logins either. I installed from a live CD, so I can reboot with it, but I have yet to give the proper incantation of the mount command to mount the hard drive. Can someone help bail me out? The following I know is not correct:

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$ sudo mount /dev/hda /mnt
mount: special device /dev/hda does not exist
ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$

The contents of /etc/fstab is:

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$ cat /etc/fstab
unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$

Thanks.

jay73 · 05-31-2007, 11:49 PM

mkdir /mnt/mountpoint
mount /dev/sda? /mnt/mountpoint (you need to find the correct number of your partition here: use fdisk -l)
cd /mnt/mountpoint/home/username (puts you in your home directory)

ocicat · 06-01-2007, 02:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jay73

mount /dev/sda? /mnt/mountpoint (you need to find the correct number of your partition here: use fdisk -l)

This did the trick! Thanks for replying!