Guest davidgypsy Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Simple question: How do I access another Linux distributions drive? I have Suse installed, and now that I installed Mandriva 2006 I would like to access the Suse drive and get my data. Thank you so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 It will probably be auto-mounted under /mnt. Look there. The name format will be hda[number] or sda[number] if you have a SATA or SCSI drive. Poke around until you find the one you know is the SuSe drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davidgypsy Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 The only ones there are the cdrom and windows. Is there some way to mount it manually? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Yes with the mount command (man mount). The format should be something like this: mount <TheDriveYouWantToMount> <TheDirYouWantToMountItTo> If there is no dir then make one. Oh before using CLI try to mount it in the MCC I'm sure somehow it can be done there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davidgypsy Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Yes with the mount command (man mount). The format should be something like this: mount <TheDriveYouWantToMount> <TheDirYouWantToMountItTo> If there is no dir then make one. Oh before using CLI try to mount it in the MCC I'm sure somehow it can be done there too. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Er... is that English? :P Go slow, I am somewhat new to this. Could you please explain step by step? So sorry for the inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Open a terminal (black monitor icon). Log in as root (type "su" and the root password). Now you can mount drives. It goes as easy as this: assuming that hda is your Mandy harddrive and hda1 = Mandy /root; hda2= swap; hda3= /home and hdb = your Suse drive; hdb1= Suse /root; hdb2= Suse /home, then mounting e.g. the Suse /home partition would be: mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt mount -t Filesystem (ext3/ext2/reiserfs/...) "device with partition to mount" on "Mandy /mnt folder" You can of course add subfolders to /mnt, thus changing the mount point to e.g. /mnt/suse or something like that. Now your partition should be mounted and accessable with e.g. Konqueror. You might however encounter obstables, that is missing permissions for the user to alter any of the files. If you need to copy any files from drive A to B, then do it as root and change the permissions later. We can guide you through that. Good luck :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 Also, if your SuSe partition is on the same hard drive as your Mandy one, then it will be hda(number), but it it's on a different drive, it will be hdb(number). hda, hdb refer to the whole drive, hdabcwhatever(number) refer to one partition on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 I think the easiest way is via GUI, open the Mandriva Control Center --> MountPoints --> Partitions,... there you'll be able to see the installed HD and particular partitions. mounted and not yet mounted... then mount the drive from there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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