I'm running redhat 9.0, and have a slave harddisk with some files stored on it from when I was using windows.

I need to access a couple of files on that drive, is there anyway to access them using linux or will I have to build windows on another drive?

Shaun

shaun....

you have to be more specific.

first is your slave disk "fat" or "ntfs"???. If its fat, no problem. If it is NTFS, then you need to recompile the kernel to enable NTFS support because RH does not come default with the support enabled. More over, your ntfs will only have read support on it.

if your drive is ntfs: get it to a friends place, copy your stuff, and reformat it as fat and then put back all your files.

if your drive is fat: (GNU/Linux supports read and write on fat partitions)
kickstart RH9.0. as root create a dir say 'fat' under /mnt. assuming your slavedisk has only one parition run mount in this manner

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat

this should do it. your files should now be visible under /mnt/fat. in case you can't figure out your drives mount point. run grep on the dmesg output to figure out OR alternativley try running fdisk against the possible drives like this

fdisk /dev/hdb
fdisk /dev/hdd

Hope this helps

DaVenom
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"Excellence is never an accident"

Go to the linux ntfs project page http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

More precisely, this is where you will find what you need http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html

I am not using RH anymore but the last time that I used the ntfs driver, it worked like a charm and provided read only support.

Cheers!

Thats great,

I only need read only support anyway, just to restore a couple of files I need.

Thanks

Shaun

Here is what I get:
root@MiniServ:~# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat
mount: mount point /mnt/fat does not exist
root@MiniServ:~#
root@MiniServ:~#

The bios does recognize the drive FYI all jumpered correctly.

Please advise ?
Thanks

i recommend making a fat32 partition if you plan to send files back to linux from windows.

the ntfs thing is good if your only interested in copying from windows to linux, and not other way around which its not capable of.

o yea, if your ever in linux and choose the fat32 option and wanted to copy a file to it, and got some goofy message that its a readonly drive...then you have to restart your computer and copy a file to it in windows first, cause i think windows does something that prevents reading some times for no real reason.

also if windows doesnt let you write to the fat32 partition, then restart your computer...i encounted that recently and have no idea what causes it...just weird.

AgentZ86
You need to create a directory before you can mount the filesystem.
mkdir /mnt/fat

In KDE as root, I added a file called hd2 to my mnt directory

I then did this without the -t

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd2 and it worked great

I think I understand what I've done now.

I also figured out this same thing with the cdrom I now understand these mnt folders.

however I thought I would have to mount with fat, or vfat for something but it did not appears to be a problem

Also I noticed that I was able to use this thing called SLAX to read boot and read my ntfs drive, I'm sure I could have figured out how to mount this somehow and eventually compiled a kernel to get it working, however I'm newbie and thought I'd roll the dice on this SlaxLive thing, and it did work for that purpose

Thanks again