simple problem in Debian? [solved]

[neocytrix]

Hello all,

I have most of my newly installed debian working however, I cannot find out how to mount my windows drive to get some information off of it from Debian. Below is a copy of my FSTAB

 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0

/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

~

 

How would I even go about doing this? Is it even possible?

 

Grazie Mille

 

Neocytrix

[arctic]

First you need to know where the windows partition is and what type of partition it is. A "fdisk -l" command will show you all partitions. Once the partitions are shown, it depends a bit. If you try to access a FAT32 partition, you would type e.g.

 

mount -t vfat /dev/hdX /mnt/

 

for making permanent changes you will have to change the fstab, but for this, we need to know the results of fdisk -l.

[neocytrix]

I did the fdisk -l and it returned this:

 

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *		   1	   11473	92156841	7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3		   12750	   14592	14803897+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5		   12750	   12879	 1044193+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6		   12880	   14592	13759641   83  Linux

[Gowator]

fstsab entry

 

/dev/hda1 / ntfs defaults,ro 0 1

 

This will let you read from the disk and not screw anything up

[neocytrix]

The linux partition is already mounted on "/" where else could I tell it to mount?

[arctic]

Create e.g. a mountpoint /mnt/win_c and let it mount there through the fstab. ;)

[neocytrix]

Here is a copy of my fstab now:

 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0

/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults,ro 0 1

 

When I type:

mount -t ntfs /mnt/windows /dev/hda1

it gives me the following:

mount: special device /mnt/windows does not exist

 

Am I doing something completely wrong?

[ianw1974]

You need to swap it around, and if you have the fstab entry, then all you need is:

 

mount /mnt/windows

 

but check that the directory /mnt/windows exists. Else, you use:

 

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

 

is the correct way if no fstab entry.

[neocytrix]

Okay I got it :-D How can I make it accessable from my user name without being root?

 

Thank you so much

Edited June 24, 2006 by neocytrix

[ianw1974]

Replace defaults with something like:

 

umask=0,user,users

 

should do it.

[neocytrix]

Grazie tutti!!!!!!

[Gowator]

The linux partition is already mounted on "/" where else could I tell it to mount?

Sorry, I copied and pasted ... as pointed out it should be a directory of your choice like /mnt/win_c