access usb hard disk through commands

iandroul · 10-05-2007, 03:43 AM

Hi

I have Fedora 6 and a western digital usb hard disk 500GB. I can mount the hard disk but the problem is when I work in command line I can not see anywhere the disk. Does anyone knows how I can access the hard disk through the command line environment, because through the grafical x environment I am not facing any problems.

Thanx

sycamorex · 10-05-2007, 10:34 AM

First you can check where it is.

# /sbin/fdisk -l
you'll find a list of all drives/partitions that you have.

let's say it'll be for example /dev/sda1

you can create a new directory (e.g. westerndigital) in your home directory and:

# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /path/to/your/westerndigital

If it is a windows fat partition you need to replace 'ext3' with 'vfat'. It'll be mounted under westerndigital and can be accessed there. To make it permanent, you need to add an entry in the file /etc/fstab

regards