I'm having some problems with my Partitioned drive. I've only been using Linux for a little while now, so its still pretty new to me. I partitioned my drive into 4 seperate ones... way back when I was using Windows, so the one partition is full of MP3's that I really want to keep.
I'm using Fedora Core 1 and I'm pretty sure I installed every thing right, I even go into the Hardware Browser under Hard Drive and it lists all my partitions all 4 of them, but I cant find the MP3's at all... where did they go?

Hummm...can you tell us what's in your /etc/fstab and which partition you believe the mp3s were on. Also if you know what filesystem you used for that partition.

well.. there is no fstab in etc and in the Hardware Browser the partion is: hda5 81062mb ntfs

This is a silly question but is /dev/hda5 mounted? If it's not you can try mounting it to a directory.

at command prompt in terminal (you might need to be root)
#mkdir /mnt/mp3s
#mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/mp3s -t ntfs -r

then you should be able to browse /mnt/mp3s for your mp3s.

Yeah, this is most likely the problem, because the only thing in /mnt was the cdrom... SO I managed to make the new dir mp3. but when I tryed to mount the partition it would just keep bring up the help file on mounting.... clearly I'm doing something wrong

in which partition you installed linux actually? Linux uses name scheme of partitions like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6, etc. The /dev/hda2 may show up if we made the partitions under dos-fdisk.
maybe you could show us what the fdisk command print out your partitions and the error messages of the mount command.

well, I'm not sure even where or how to get to the dos-fdisk.

But for the mounting... I did exactly like terrapin54 said to do... it made the dir mp3 fine, but when I went to mount it said "can't find /dev/hda5 in ect/fstab or ect/mtab

Im possitive the partions are still there though, I even had Mandrake 9.2 running last week before deciding to switch to Fedora which I like way better.... but I could access the mp3 patition no problem though Mandrake...

Any thoughts??

Is there any other ways to mount?

could you show us how is the output of the cfdisk command?
#cfdisk /dev/hda -> for primary master hd
#cfdisk /dev/hdb -> for primary slave hd
#cfdisk /dev/hdc -> for secondary master hd
#cfdisk /dev/hdd -> for secondary slave hd
It could be easier for us to see the problem.

still working on this one.....

I found out I didnt have the ntfs rpm installed so I'm all ready to go and when I go to mount it in the dir/mp3 I made this is what it says:

[will@h24-70-135-93 will]$ su
Password:
[root@h24-70-135-93 will]# mount /dev/hda5 mnt/mp3 -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
mount: mount point mnt/mp3 does not exist
[root@h24-70-135-93 will]# cd ..
[root@h24-70-135-93 home]# cd ..
[root@h24-70-135-93 /]# cd mnt
[root@h24-70-135-93 mnt]# dir
cdrom mp3
[root@h24-70-135-93 mnt]# mount /dev/hda5 mnt/mp3 -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
mount: mount point mnt/mp3 does not exist
[root@h24-70-135-93 mnt]# cd mp3
[root@h24-70-135-93 mp3]# mount /dev/hda5 mnt/mp3 -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
mount: mount point mnt/mp3 does not exist
[root@h24-70-135-93 mp3]#
[root@h24-70-135-93 mp3]#


I mean it clearly shows that I made the mp3 dir. I even go right into it, but it still says it doesnt exist. any ideas??

mount /dev/hda5 mnt/mp3 -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222

Should be

mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/mp3 -t ntfs -ro umask=0222

You forgot to include the first /

sweet, thanks... just a stupid little /