Guest Billeh Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Hey guys, I'm really new to Linux (Mandrake 9.1) I partitioned my harddrive placing 18 gigs for a windows OS(NTFS), 40 gigs for Mp3's and games(FAT32) and then I just installed the Linus on whatever was left my question is how do I set it so that I can browse and use files from the 40 gig with linux....I followed the guide on this site but I have no idea on how to get the partition to show up in linux...if someoene could please explain to me how to do it, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 Do some searching on the following terms (click advanced search) fstab and /dev Basically you have to edit your /etc/fstab file and add an entry for each new partition... plenty of reading material on it in this board.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurking Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 I did something similar and it turned out the 'shared' partition wasn't mounted automatically. Fair enough. You're a newb so it will be easier to do this in mandrake control centre, hardware, hda(if you only have 1 disk) and run config tool. Nice gui so you can see what partitions you have, and click on the fat32 partition and mount it, if it wasn't. It should then be listed in the /mnt folder. Hopefully. Learn the GUI first then the commandline will become easier. edit:use diskdrake in the M.C.C or type diskdrake in a terminal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Billeh Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 ok thanks for the info, I'll try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 28, 2003 Share Posted October 28, 2003 It may be simpler than that. 9.1 should have set that up during install. You access other partitions in linux through mount points which are just directories created for that purpose. Mandrake puts all mount points in the /mnt directory. Click on your home icon to open the file manager and navigate to the /mnt directory. You will see a few subdirectories there, one for your floppy(/mnt/floppy), one for your cd drive(/mnt/cdrom) and if it was set up right, one each for your windows partitions named something like "win_c" for the first one and "win_d" for the second. If you click n those directories, you'll see the contents of those partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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