Guest unionjak Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 hello, i would like to view wat is on my hard disks, including the windows h/d, is this possible as i know i could when i first started mendriva 10.1 64 bit ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 First, a partitionning tool (such as DiskDrake) will help you see what partitions you have. For example, you may have Windows on /dev/hda1, which in Windows words is "C:". Next, for each formated partition you want to look into (except swap partitions: those can't be seen), you'll have to mount it somewhere, eg: /mnt/hda1, or /mnt/windowsC, whatever... Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest unionjak Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 hello and thanks for the rely....will mounting the hard drive(s) erase any data, as i have a duel boot system at the moment(but not 4 long ?) and need the data on both hard drives ? many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest voralle Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 hello and thanks for the rely....will mounting the hard drive(s) erase any data, as i have a duel boot system at the moment(but not 4 long ?) and need the data on both hard drives ?many thanks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, of course, until you deliberately erase some data, being root! Moreover, if your disks belong to a W2000/XP NTFS partition, that is mounted readonly, no matter what you choose! As an example, here are some lines from my fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winME vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/DOS_6.22 vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/Mdk_8.2 ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 /Mdk_9.0 ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/warehouse ext3 defaults 1 2 here you understand there is a windows ME partition mounted on /mnt/winME, a Mandrake 8.2 on /mnt/Mdk_8.2, a Mandrake 9.0 on /mnt/Mdk_9.0 which are all part of a lilo multiboot, wievable each other with a suitable fstab. the /mnt/warehouse, as the name itself says, is a common place to put all possible stuff. Regards Alberto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolf Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 The Mandriva install usually sets up mount points for Windows partitions under the /mnt directory and makes entries for them in /etc/fstab such that they are mounted/viewable at boot, without a need to do anything further. If you navigate in a file browser, like konqueror, to the /mnt/directory, do you see any win_*/ directories? That would be typical of a mount point for a Windows partition. If you have that, look in there. Alternatively, what does grep mnt /etc/fstab when issued as a command in console show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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