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Old 10-10-2004, 07:47 AM   #1
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auto mounting of hard disk partitions


Hi,

I have started using linux since last 2 months and I am mostly newbi. I am using PXELINUX which is used to as thin clients to connect windows server.
Here the local devices ( CDROM & FLOPPY DRIVE) are mounted automatically but the Hard Disk Partitions are not mounted. While going through initialisation script in /etc/init.d/rcS I found that the ide devices is already detected but not mounted. I manually gave the command to mount the 1st patition
mount -t vfat /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /mnt/hd and the partition was mounted.

Now I want a script to run this under various hardware and it should auto detect all the hard disk partitions present and mount them automatically. Also is it possible to detect type of partition like fat32, ntfs, ext3 etc and mount them accordingly.

Thanks.
 
Old 10-10-2004, 08:54 AM   #2
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well.. why not just add them in the fstab ?
 
Old 10-10-2004, 11:58 AM   #3
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I want to use the Bootable CD under different hardware and the
no of partitions are not known. So how to detect how many
partitions are present and mount them accordingly.
 
Old 11-08-2004, 09:04 AM   #4
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I think u know where u have connected your harddisk.So depending upon that it will be disc0 or 1 ...
Now run
fdisk /dev/discs/disc0(or 1 or whatever your disk no is)
it will show u the list of partitions with details .
 
  


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