does anyone know how to change between different partitions under linux?

kuertensun · 06-09-2005, 11:27 AM

no, nothing.just another prompt appeared.
so how to mount the partition now?I have already executed the command you gave me.mount -t vfat /dev/hda7/mnt/drive.
thanks!!

michaelk · 06-09-2005, 02:45 PM

If you do not see any messages then the command completed successfully.
The mount command without any options will show all mounted filesystems. If you see /hda7 then it is mounted.

Also look at the output of the df -h command to see if there is used space on the partition.

kuertensun · 06-09-2005, 04:00 PM

/hda7 is not mounted.

michaelk · 06-09-2005, 05:00 PM

And no error messages? Have you tried mounting again?

mcd · 06-09-2005, 07:21 PM

just to clarify, you first created /mnt/drive (mkdir /mnt/drive) and then tried the mount command right? and further, there has to be a space between the partition and the mount point (which can be unclear sometimes) like this:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/drive

this space ------------^

then you can

cd /mnt/drive
ls

to see what's there.

kuertensun · 06-12-2005, 07:15 AM

thank you very much upstairs and michaelK
I didn't type the space when I used the mount command.