Viewing other harddrives (FAT)
 

Hi
I have Red Hat 9.0
I"D Like to view my files which are on the other hdd. My Mp3's, pictures, docs, etc. But I can only see Floppy and CD-ROMS in disk management menu. How can I reach the Windows HDD or others.
Thank you

Huseyin GULTEKIN

I believe you can do this:

1) make a directory under /mnt, call it, say, windows
2) command prompt: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

This works for my Windows 98 partition (which is on hda1).

Your Windows files will then appear under /mnt/windows.

There is one more way of doing the same thing.

1. Make a new folder /mnt/c_win

2. Now go to the file /etc/fstab file and edit it to add the following entry:

(I am replying from the windoze box so cant tell u the exact sequence right now...however this is probably ok)

/mnt/hda1 /mnt/c_win vfat defaults 0 0

This entry will automatically mount your windows partition at the time of boot. Hda1 is C:(/mnt/c_win) ....similarly, use hda2 for D:(d_win) or any name u wanna give and so on...

If properly mounted, you will notice the contents of that particular drive in /mnt/c_win directory and so on......

well, the html output has messed my reply a bit.....so let me reply again..

step 1 - create a new folder /mnt/win_c

step 2 - Edit the /mnt/fstab file and add the line below with your entries exactly below every default entry in the file. Place a tab between all the entries except 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat defaults 0 0


Please ignore the previous post.

hope that helps.

was it nt vb code??

No, my reply is based on the assumption that windows is installed using FAT32 file system.

Note that your first hard disk will be called hda

C drive on hda will be called as /dev/hda1
D drive will be /dev/hda2 ....and so on

Your second hard disk will be called hdb...

C drive on this disk will be /dev/hdb1
D will be /dev/hdb2

and so on.....

depending on which hdd your windows partition exists, you need to change the name of the drive in the file /etc/fstab to mount the windows partition automatically at the time of boot.

for example : if you want to mount windows partitions on your first disk i.e hda, the entries in the file /etc/fstab will be

for C drive
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c_win vfat defaults 0 0

for D drive
/dev/hda2 /mnt/d_win vfat defaults 0 0

Update the file /etc/fstab using values that i have mentioned in the previous post.

( if your file system is NTFS, then try replacing VFAT with NTFS...)