Not seeing windows partitions with df and mount command

deepika · 07-15-2003, 01:04 PM

Hi all,

I have both Windows and Linux installed on my laptop. But I am unable to see partitions associated with Windows using both df and mount command.
But if I run /sbin/fdisk and enter command 'p' it shows the same.

Can anyone please tell me what can be the problem with 'df' and 'mount'.

Thanks & regards,
Deepika

serz · 07-15-2003, 01:20 PM

Do a search in this forum for "mount vfat". It sounds that you don't even have your win partition in your /etc/fstab (the file that automounts everything there, when your system boots up).

nxny · 07-15-2003, 01:20 PM

If you dont have your windows partitions mounted, do so before you use df and mount. These commands do not scan your HDD, they find out what's mounted ( from /proc/mounts for instance ) and report on those.

Skyline · 07-15-2003, 01:41 PM

Hi Deppika

Have you created a mount point in a Linux directory for this yet?

Post the complete code you use for the mount command.

deepika · 07-15-2003, 02:51 PM

Thanks everyone,

yes, /etc/fstab file doesn't contain win partition info, that's why it's not getting mounted. Isn't it?

well, when I run /sbin/fdisk command I get following output.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1354 10236208+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 3750 3876 960120 1c Hidden Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 1355 3749 18106200 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1355 3183 13827208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 3184 3668 3666568+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3669 3749 612328+ 82 Linux swap
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

I could mount first two win partitions (hda1 and hda2) but couldn't mount other two (hda3 and hda5). It gives "wrong fs type........" error. Can anyone tell what fs type I should give while using mount command.

And also how should I modify my /etc/fstab so that these are mounted at boot time along with Linux partitions?

nxny · 07-15-2003, 04:04 PM

When they made those 20Meg drives that look and weigh like a suitcase a decade and some ago, 4 primary partitions sounded like a lot more than one could wish for, but the legacy got carried forward.

Your /dev/hda3 is an extended partition that houses your hda5,6 and 7. It is more of a 'container' than a real partition that contains a filesystem and can hold data on its own. So you cannot mount it, not that you would ever need to.

Coming to /dev/hda5, you need to have NTFS support enabled so that the kernel can understand the underlying filesystem. Check out http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

Once you have your NTFS driver, something like
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windohs ntfs defaults,rw,user,uid=500,gid=100,umask=137 0 0

should do the job.