Subject: Re: Reading a dos partition
From: Adam Elkins (LinuxRobot@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 22:00:38 AKST
Yeah, it's fat. I got it to work....ddoing mkdir /mnt/winnt , mount -t vfat
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winnt worked. I found though, I cannot cd to a dir that has
caps in the title (like 'Program Files') so I simply changed all the windirs
to lowercase....
Thanks guys.
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 09:07 pm, Jim wrote:
> 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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