windows partition mount problem in Fedora 8

vatzcar · 06-12-2008, 12:44 AM

I have 5 windows partition. 2 out of them are NTFS and rest are FAT32. In fedora only one NTFS and one FAT32 partition is getting recognized. How to resolve the problem. In my fstab it seems to have no entry for any partition. my fstab file is as

Code:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sdb4         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

jpwigan · 06-12-2008, 01:00 AM

fstab is only defining which partitions are mountable by normal users and which partitions get automounted at boot. Post the output of 'fdisk -l' to give us a better idea of what partitions are present on your system.

vatzcar · 06-12-2008, 01:44 AM

result of fdisk -l

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa499a499

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3976    31937188+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            3977       16709   102277822+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3           16710       19456    22065277+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5            3977       10363    51303546    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6           10364       16709    50974213+   b  W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa4e5a4e5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        2511    20169576    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2            2512        5019    20145510    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb3            5020        9481    35841015   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4            9482       10011     4257225   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb5            2512        5019    20145478+   b  W95 FAT32

jpwigan · 06-12-2008, 11:55 AM

Well, first, you seem to have 8 Windows filesystems, not 5. You should be able to mount any one of them with:

mount /dev/sd[ab]N /where/to/mount

For example to mount the NTFS volume on your first hard disk, you might use:

mount /dev/sda1 /win/sda1

Assuming "/win/sda1" is a directory that exists. You can then add entries to /etc/fstab if you want to mount these filesystems at boot. That would look like:

/dev/sda1 /win/sda1 ntfs defaults 0 0

For the example above. For the FAT32 partitions, use 'vfat' instead of 'ntfs' in the third field.