hi everyone
I have 3 hard drive
1 80 gig for windows, i supose linux reads it as hda
2 200 gig for documents, with 2 partitions hdb
3 20 gig for slackware hdd

I'd like to mount my 200g drive, how can i do this?
I try to look up at the /dev directory and i find a lot of hdb(1-20). I don't know which one is which
Thank You

type, as root

that prints all the partitions of all your disks.

Also you can type, as root too

to manipulate the given disk hd?

and you can see the partition numbers and mount them wherever you want

Try:
Change '/mnt/doc' to what ever you want. Make sure the directory exists. And the vfat is only an assumption

Change the vfat to whatever your file system is. (Remember, linux can't write to a NTFS partition, only read, at least not without modification)

Try to get the different options

i tried the fdisk -l
i can mount the windows drive
i can mount one of the partition from second drive
but when i tried to mount the second partition from the second drive it says you must specify the filesystem type. The command i try is mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/d



when i fdisk -l, it shows
hdb1 , i can mount w95 fat32(LBA)
hdb2, can not mount w95 Ext'd (LBA)
hdb5, can not mount w95 fat32

when i tried mount vfat /dev/hdb2 /mnt/d it gives me a detail about mount command

Thank You

hdb2 is an extended partition and can not be mounted. In a nutshell an extended partition is a container for logical partitions which is hdb5. Post the exact errors when trying to mount hdb5

When drives first started appearing in PCs there was a limitation of 4 partitions.
It soon became apparent that with larger capacity drives and users wanting to install multiple OSs that 4 was inadequate so the extended / logical partitions were developed. The original 4 are now called primary partitions and have an ID of 1-4. Any partition with an ID>4 is a logical partition.

Lots more info can be found by googling...

Um...2 is > 4?
hdb2 is part 2, drive 1
hda1 is part 1, drive 0
So may not be extended/logical. Depends on original setup w/windows. Could be a primary

A primary partition can be defined as an extended partition. I skipped that part.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_admin/x1139.html

The Ext'd means this is an extended partition.

ok, i get that extended hdb2 drive can not be mounted

when i use mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mnt/d
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
is there any way to get arround this?
Thank you

Look at the output of dmesg command
dmesg | tail

Post any errors that reference mounting hdb5

this is what i got after is use dmesg | tail

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:42.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:42.
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:42.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:45.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:45.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:45.

I assume that windows does not have any problem accessing this drive?

in my xp
i have c , d, f
c and d i can mount but the f not
c is hda, d hdb1 , f hdb?
Is it because it is 150G ?

Your f drive is hdb5. So does this drive work in windows correctly?

150GB should not be a problem.

What windows OS are you running?
How was this partition formated? Windows XP can not create or format a partition >32GB?

in windows everything is good
i used the western digital disk tool to create the partition for this drive