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Old 06-02-2004, 09:40 AM   #1
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Stupid newbe question


ok .. I need to mount a fat partition that currently has WindowsXP on it ... this would be easy however its not working ... I dont know if I have the correct device statement ...

WindowsXP is on the primary partition on the master drive on controller 1
Free space on the second partition on the master dirve on controller 1
Linux is on the primary partition on master drive on controller 2 ..

how would I mount the first and second partitions on the master drive on controller 1?

hope this made sence ..
 
Old 06-02-2004, 09:43 AM   #2
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Depending on your distro you probably have to compile ntfs support, get the rpm from rpmfind or wherever. Then you mount it with type ntfs.
 
Old 06-02-2004, 09:47 AM   #3
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its not a NTFS .. if you read the post I posted that is was a FAT partition ...

its not the vfat that returning the error .. its "device not found" .. I dont know what the command is for the device ... IE: /dev/????
 
Old 06-02-2004, 10:04 AM   #4
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ok .. I got the firat partition mounted ... with the command:

mount -t /dev/hda1/ /mnt/windows

how do I mount the second partition? ...
 
Old 06-02-2004, 01:01 PM   #5
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You need to first make a mount point for the second partition. As a root type

mkdir /mnt/windows2

if the second partitions number is hda2 then you can mount it using
mount -t /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows2

if you don't know the number of the partition, you can find it out using fdisk
type.

fdisk /dev/hda

once you are in fdisk, you can ask it to print the current partition table.
it should display all the partitions along with their numbers.
you can then use the number to mount that particular partition.

-Anand
 
Old 06-02-2004, 08:32 PM   #6
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hello!

to have them mounted every time youre system starts do this:
you edit the file /etc/fstab whit this command joe /etc/fstab
then you have to write

/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat defaults 0 0

i used the same partition that anandj used.

cheers, boby
 
Old 06-03-2004, 06:31 AM   #7
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=180849

check the above thread for more details on the exact format of the statement to put in fstab file.

-Anand
 
  


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