Subject: Re: Reading a dos partition
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 08:30:16 AKST
Usually on a RedHat install on a dual boot box, rh makes a directory for
mounting your windows partition '/mnt/windows'. I not, put a
subdirectory under /mnt for it. 'mkdir /mnt/windows' or /mnt/nt or
whatever. You will need to be root to do this. mount it with 'mount -t
vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows', assuming windows is on hda1. You need to
be root here too.
Jim
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 19:41, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> Is /mnt/dev/hda1 a folder in your directory tree? If not, make a folder
> somewhere where you want to mount the partition. (If you make your
> folder somewhere else other than /mnt/dev/hda1, substitute the correct
> path in the instructions below)
>
> Then to mount it you would do "mount -t <type> <device> <mount point>"
> In the case you are describing below, you would do "mount -t vfat
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dev/hda1"
>
> If the device isn't mounted, when you go to /mnt/dev/hda1, it will
> appear to be just an empty directory. Also note that you "cd" to the
> mount point (/mnt/dev/hda1), and not the device itself (/dev/hda1).
>
> I use "vfat" for my windows filesystem type, but you may need to
> substitute it with "ntfs" or "msdos", depending on your setup.
>
> Hope this helps, if not, let me know and I'll try some more to get you
> up and running. :)
>
> Justin
> www.enderakonline.com
>
>
>
> Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> > I've go this box dual booting Red Hat and WinNT, I can mount the first
> > harddrive( mount -t msdos /mnt/dev/hda1 ), but I can't seem to look at it?
> > Until I get wine or something like that woking, I'd like to use the dos
> > partition to download mp3's and such, then copy them from the dos drive to
> > the ext3 drive. Is this even possible? Once I do the above, do I just cd to
> > it? # cd /dev/hda1 ? Am I missing something?
> >
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