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Old 04-02-2006, 08:43 AM   #1
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hard check


is there a programm that can search hard drives of windows and mount them like in windows
 
Old 04-02-2006, 08:45 AM   #2
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I don't know what mounting means on windows, but for seraching in linux try:
updatedb
slocate file_name

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Old 04-02-2006, 03:35 PM   #3
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If you mean mounting Windows file shares on Linux, you can do this through the smbmount command.
 
Old 04-02-2006, 05:28 PM   #4
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You can view the partitions that on all hard drives with the "fdisk -l" command. Windows partitions can by identified by havind some "FAT" or a "NTFS" partition type. You can then mount the partition with "mount <devicename> <mountpoint>", for instance:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd

This will make the partition available through /mnt/hd. If you are looking for some automounting utility, it doesn not really exist outside "automount". But if you have installed a third-party GNOME environment with HAL it should work. This can also be done with KDE if you add entries for the devices to /etc/fstab (or if you compile KDE with HAL support). This howto may be useful for you:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
 
Old 04-03-2006, 11:15 AM   #5
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what i was saying that when connectin any new hard drive or cdrom or cd writer an login onto windows u will find it found and working probarly on it
in linux u must mount each driver
and windows have a nice programe called add new hardware
 
Old 04-03-2006, 11:56 AM   #6
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I think some of the more gui orientated distributions will have a graphical front end for searching for hardware, but Slackware assumes that the user will do what needs to be done
 
Old 04-03-2006, 12:15 PM   #7
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I think you can try Suse for such things.
 
Old 04-04-2006, 01:58 AM   #8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmed gamal
and windows have a nice programe called add new hardware
The Linux kernel does this too.
Read the output of dmesg and modify /etc/fstab to mount new partitions/devices
Automount can prove useful as well
 
  


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