Files not showing up in mounted drive

JCDenton · 08-01-2003, 06:18 PM

Hi everyone
I recently installed Mandrake 9.1 on my computer. I have a second hard drive that I used to use to run Windows XP. I'm trying to get at my files on the second drive, so I tried mounting the partititions, blah, blah, blah. If I look in the folder that I mounted a partition to, nothing shows up. Everything is still on my second hard drive, but I just can't seem to access any of it. Any thoughts?

Tinkster · 08-01-2003, 06:22 PM

Show us the way you mount it?
If you mount from the command-line,
did you get any error messages?

Cheers,
Tink

Mara · 08-01-2003, 06:22 PM

If there's nothing in the directory, it means the mount was unsuccessful. Could you please copy a command line session of mounting a Windows partition>

TheOneAndOnlySM · 08-01-2003, 06:25 PM

does mandrake not automatically mount windows partitions?

browse through all of the files in the /mnt/subdir directories either through a terminal in superuser or using konqueror in superuser mode

JCDenton · 08-01-2003, 06:27 PM

thanks for the quick reply

What I've been doing is:

opening up Konsole and starting a root console session
using the # mkdir command to make a directory for the partition
and then mounting the windows partition with the cmd "# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows/

When I go to /mnt/windows/, its empty

JCDenton · 08-01-2003, 06:27 PM

superuser mode?

TheOneAndOnlySM · 08-01-2003, 07:00 PM

"vfat", that is probably the problem

winxp should use ntfs

replace vfat with ntfs

JCDenton · 08-01-2003, 07:14 PM

nah I'm using fat32

violaten · 08-01-2003, 08:12 PM

I think you have to edit your /etc/fstab file to access the partition. try:

emacs /etc/fstab

then at the end add

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw 0 2

jdruin · 08-02-2003, 12:17 AM

Warning, I am a noob but...

That --> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows/
looks good but are you sure the windows partition is known as HBD1 in Linux? I did that one night (LOL) and it took me a few minutes to see that problem. Once you get that partition mounted using the command line, then build an entry in /etc/fstab. If the above line works, then put this in your fstab:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto 0 0

I think that is correct anyway?