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Could someone help me format my fstab file so that I can access the files on my secondary drive?
I'm currently running 3 hard drives on my Athlon-based system. My main drive hda1 (NTFS) is host to Windows XP until I can get my media transferred to My secondary drive hdh1 (FAT32)
I've also made attempts to mount my NTFS drive.. but alas I've had no success
I installed an NTFS rpm file but it doesn't seem to have made a difference.
Try to mount them using the command mount, before altering the fstab file. In /proc there is a file called fylesystems, which contains the filesystems, that your computer supports. See if there is a line called VFAT and NTFS, which will tell you if your computer(kernel) supports those filesystems. If so, use the fdisk command:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
to list the partitions on your primary harddisk, or hdb for your second harddisk. Once you identify the partitions, mount them using the mount command:
mount -t fvat /dev/hda2 /mnt/harddisk2
HEre you can see, that by -t you defined the type of filesystem you are mounting, with /dev/hda2 you defined that it is the second partition on your primary harddisk, and with /mnt/harddisk2 you said, you want it mounted at the /mnt/harddisk2 directory(mountpoint). Be sure to create the directory(mountpoint) before mounting the filesystem there, or it will fail. Hope this helps. You can always try to recompile the kernel, to get NTFS support, or install the rpm driver.
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