how to access other disk partition

Upendra Pratap Singh · 08-30-2015, 02:09 PM

I have got 5 partitions of my hard disk. Four of them are for Windows and the one is for Ubuntu.

Is there a way to access files of other partitions( windows partition) from Ubuntu terminal.

The df output looks like

F

Code:

ilesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev              885496        0    885496   0% /dev
tmpfs             179184     9344    169840   6% /run
/dev/sda2      100660656  6967472  88556800   8% /
tmpfs             895908     1356    894552   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             895908        0    895908   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs             179184       52    179132   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda3      153599996 56507192  97092804  37% /media/snowbell/Fun Time
/dev/sda5       81946180 26517192  55428988  33% /media/snowbell/Study

Head_on_a_Stick · 08-30-2015, 03:26 PM

Code:

# mount /dev/sdaX /mnt

Upendra Pratap Singh · 08-30-2015, 10:08 PM

Thanks @Head on a Stick

I am able to access the files of sda5 successfully. But then, the df output no longer shows the line

Quote:

/dev/sda3 153599996 56507192 97092804 37 /media/snowbell/Fun Time

which it was showing in the above quoted output.

What could be the reason?

chrism01 · 09-02-2015, 06:13 AM

What cmd did you use exactly??

oldtechaa · 09-02-2015, 06:51 AM

If you want to access them, you could just find the files in the "/media/snowbell/Fun Time" directory.

michaelk · 09-02-2015, 07:16 AM

Need more information.

Post the output of the command:
sudo fdisk -l (that is a small L)

If the disk is formatted using legacy MBR then you will have an extended partition and if you have a swap partition that could account for the missing two.

John VV · 09-02-2015, 02:20 PM

Quote:

/media/snowbell/Fun Time

so you have BLANK spaces in folder names ....

not good , this will CAUSE to need to do extra work

ether use quotes around the full path
"/media/snowbell/Fun Time"
or escape it
/media/snowbell/Fun\Time

quotes work better most of the time

suicidaleggroll · 09-02-2015, 04:32 PM

If you're trying to access sda5, just go to /media/snowbell/Study

Similarly, if you're trying to access sda3, go to /media/snowbell/Fun Time

If you already have a partition mounted (you can see it in df), then there's no reason to mount it again somewhere else, and mounting sda5 somewhere won't cause sda3 to unmount, so as chrism01 asked, we need to know what exact command you ran.

sundialsvcs · 09-02-2015, 07:07 PM

Typically, the device auto-discovery process will create a /dev entry for each attached disk and for each partition on that disk.

To access the partition, you must mount it. The general format is: mount /dev/devicename mount_point, where mount_point is the name of an existing, but empty, directory, usually in the root directory ("/") The contents of the partition, if successfully mounted, then appear as the "contents" of that directory.

Upendra Pratap Singh · 09-05-2015, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

so you have BLANK spaces in folder names ....

not good , this will CAUSE to need to do extra work

ether use quotes around the full path
"/media/snowbell/Fun Time"
or escape it
/media/snowbell/Fun\Time

quotes work better most of the time

How to unmount the same partition?