Mounting the windows partiton

Gins · 08-08-2005, 01:10 PM

I have Mandrake Linux 10.0

I am running both Windows XP and Mandrake Linux 10.0 on this computer.

My Windowś partition is /dev/hda5

My Linux partiton is /dev/hda9

I just want to know the command to mount the Windows partition. Because I want to copy a letter written in the Word for Windows program to the Linux.

Could you tell me the command to mount the Windows partition, please?

amdrake · 08-08-2005, 01:18 PM

Your XP partition should already be mounted under /mnt/windows, but you can do it yourself:

mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows

Gins · 08-08-2005, 01:38 PM

Thanks for the reply, amdrake. I got the following output.

[root@c83-250-88-242 ka]# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows
mount: mount point /mnt/windows does not exist

What is the meaning of it?

Gins · 08-08-2005, 01:41 PM

Then I tried the following command.
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[root@c83-250-88-242 ka]# mount /dev/hda5
mount: /dev/hda5 already mounted or /mnt/win_d busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 is already mounted on /mnt/win_d
[root@c83-250-88-242 ka]#

What is the meaning of it?

kencaz · 08-08-2005, 01:56 PM

It's already mounted... Your files are located here:

/mnt/win_d

KC

amdrake · 08-08-2005, 02:02 PM

mount: mount point /mnt/windows does not exist

means that the directory doesn't exist. You have to create a folder before you can mount a partition to it. To create a directory:

mkdir [folder_name]

Gins · 08-08-2005, 02:03 PM

Thanks kencaz

You are correct.

Gins · 08-09-2005, 04:08 AM

Thanks for the reply amdrake

It worked beautifully.

I just use the 'cd' command and went inside the ' /mnt/win_d' .
I could see all the files in my Word for Windows program. I just copied them to the Linux using the 'cp' command.
So it was not necessary to create an additional folder.