[oclug] Help a Newbie - access files in another partition?

[Stephen M. Webb]

On Tuesday, November 18 2003 10:34, Ari Rosberg wrote:
>
> I made a dual boot system with Win98SE in a primary DOS partition (FAT32)
> and Redhat 9 in a second partition, Linux swap file in a 3rd partition. I
> also have a second physical drive with a single DOS(FAT32) partition for
> most of my data files. in Linux, I can't "see" either of the DOS
> partitions. Is there any way to read/write files from those partitions?

You should just have to mount them.

For example, as root, create two mount points, say /C and /D.  Then, mount the 
partitions.

  mount /dev/hda1 /C; mount /dev/hdb1 /D

Assuming your kernel has FAT file system support built in or available as a 
module, it should just work.

If you want the partitions automatically mounted as system boot time, you'll 
want to stick entries for them in the /etc/fstab file.


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Stephen M. Webb
stephen.webb at bregmasoft.com