Subject: Re: Reading a dos partition
From: Jim (jwadell@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 21:07:57 AKST
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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I have used
mount -t vfat -o uni_xlate
with great success to mount a dos partition to tar it up for backup or to move
to another machine. I assume that the partition is vfat and not ntfs?
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