Mounting a windows drive

BuzzStPoint · 12-31-2003, 11:18 AM

I have Redhat 9 and am trying to mount a windows drive.. This drive has data files I need.

I'm new to linux and having touble.. While browsing I seen some commands to try to mount but I dont know what hd"x" to use. I seen somewhere to run fdisk but that gives me a bad command.. I also seen to type df.. so i did.

Code:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             21274668   2067644  18126324  11% /
/dev/hda1               102454      9323     87841  10% /boot
none                     62492         0     62492   0% /dev/shm
[root@localhost //]#

I can boot to DOS and see my files but How do i mount the drive in Redhat 9?

michaelk · 12-31-2003, 11:29 AM

You need to log in as root first.

fdisk -l /dev/hda (That is a small L)

My first guess would be hda2.

Post the output

BuzzStPoint · 12-31-2003, 11:31 AM

Code:

[root@localhost buzz]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
bash: fdisk: command not found

BuzzStPoint · 12-31-2003, 11:36 AM

Sorry, logged out and logged in as root

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30003240960 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3875 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        14    105808+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2          2908      3875   7318080    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3            15      2873  21614040   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          2874      2907    257040   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda5          2908      3875   7318048+   b  Win95 FAT32
 
Partition table entries are not in disk order

BuzzStPoint · 12-31-2003, 11:40 AM

Ok I got it mounted.. and can see my files I had to mount hda5

will this stay mounted when I reboot?

Skyline · 12-31-2003, 11:53 AM

Quote:

[root@localhost buzz]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
bash: fdisk: command not found

You'll need su dash ie

su -
root password

to get a typical Root user PATH in Red Hat and hence use fdisk (well /sbin/fdisk) - anyways......

Quote:

will this stay mounted when I reboot?

- it'll get mounted on boot-up if you put an entry in /etc/fstab

create a mount point

mkdir /mnt/windows

then on a new line in /etc/fstab

/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows vfat umask=000,defaults 0 0

save - then reboot