How to mount a spare partition on a hard drive?

sirius57 · 02-09-2009, 09:44 PM

I have a triple boot box with a partition of about 20 gig that I want to use for data. It was originally used for fedora core 6 and the partition is in that file system format. I would like to mount that partition from my suse partition. What are my options for doing so?

lauer · 02-10-2009, 04:41 AM

Try as root the command 'mount' (see 'man mount' for your options). Something like 'mount /dev/xxxx /mnt' should work. xxxx is the device of this partition. You have to find out which device it actually is (try e.g. 'fdisk'). Once you're happy, you can add a line to your fstab with an appropriate mount point. This will ensure that the partition will be mounted at boot time (do a 'man fstab').