Other Help Topics :: mount Hard drive?

I know this probobly simple, but whast the full line command for mounting your ext2 formatted harddrive while booted from the DSL cd? Its currently hda2

I believe it would go something like this:

mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd

That seems to work for me, anyway.

ok

so I tried mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/d
and I got:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2 or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended paritition, instead of some logical paritition inside?)

I was however able to mount one of my ntfs data parititions using
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/d
but couldn't play my MP3's on it cause i'm not logged in as root. (curious if anyone knows how to get around that, su sudo only works within the shell window)

Does RH 8.0 use ext2?

RH 8.0 should use ext3, but ext3 is supposed to be backwards compatible with ext2. Make sure you're trying to mount as root. Also, specifying '-t ext2' shouldn't be necessary, I think. Just try:

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/d

I guess you should make sure /mnt/d exists (as a folder) first; 'mkdir /mnt/d' (again, as root).

Finally, when you 'Enhance' fluxbox, there should be an app in the slit that lets you easily mount the partitions DSL noticed when it installed. Just click the little arrow until you see the partition you want to mount, then click the button with the black line across it. It should turn green(ish), indicating the mount was successful.

as it turns out I was trying mount my swap paritition (yeah, yeah I know)

to get it to mount properly i did still have to state the fs type ie:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd

the only problem I'm having now is accessing my ntfs paritition through XMMS....

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