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22-Apr-2005, 06:11 AM #1
Solved: mounting partitions
Ok so I am using suse 9.1 and I want to mount some partitions.
This is my current list of partitions:


what I want to do is mount /dev/hdb2 .

i have figured out how to open run terminals, so im just after the needed commands to achieve this.

i have looked on the net, but none of the guides i have found have worked. could you guys give me a hand? id also like to mount the NTFS partitions if possible - although i dont know if it would have any effect in suse 9.1 - i know it would be read only if anything.

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22-Apr-2005, 06:13 AM #2
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2 /mount/windows (course the mount point has to exist beforehand)

for a ntfs

mount -t ntfs (device) (mountpoint)

if you want to mount them at will you will want to add entries for both to your /etc/fstab file. The format is in the file. in the options you will want to put noauto if you don't want to have them automatically mounted.

Edit: ntfs assumes you have the filesystem info for mounting the ntfs. If you don't then a way will have to be done for it. Of which there are two.
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Originally Posted by bigavvystyle
Ok so I am using suse 9.1 and I want to mount some partitions.
This is my current list of partitions:


what I want to do is mount /dev/hdb2 .

i have figured out how to open run terminals, so im just after the needed commands to achieve this.

i have looked on the net, but none of the guides i have found have worked. could you guys give me a hand? id also like to mount the NTFS partitions if possible - although i dont know if it would have any effect in suse 9.1 - i know it would be read only if anything.

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as root:
create a mountpoint (unless always you want to use /mnt), I'll call it
FAT32 here.
mkdir /FAT32


set permissions (should be automatic, but to be sure)
chmod 755 /FAT32


mount the partition: (/dev/whatever is the device, e.g. /dev/sda4
(SCSI-ZIP, primary partition 4 -- that's the default for preformatted
ones)
mount -tvfat /dev/hdb2 /FAT32


If you want to make it more permanent (or let users do the mount or ...)
just edit /etc/fstab, add a line:


/dev/hdb2r /FAT32 vfat noauto,user 0 0

Device mountpoint | don't mount at | (parallel) fsck order
| boot, users may | (at boot), 0 = don't
| mount it |
Filesystem-type dump-frequency


(Dump is a backup-program)
(for more info, see man fstab)


Then any user can mount the drive with
mount FAT32
or mount /dev/whatever



I Think that should work
give it a try
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22-Apr-2005, 06:45 AM #4
thanx guys, i successfully mounted the fat32 partition. but when i go into the mount point folder i created and mounted to - /backups - it doesnt show anything there. but if i open a program like a media player to access music files, i can see the dir's inside and access the files. whats up with that?

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22-Apr-2005, 09:31 AM #5
did you allow users to mount the partition? (/etc/fstab)
are you using a user account to try to access it or are you trying to browse it as root?
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22-Apr-2005, 09:39 AM #6
Oh, i think i have figured it out, i had a look and found this site:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

which explains the options i needed to add.

Thanx

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Ok, I have a couple of problems still. I tried the following:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2 /backups auto,rw,user,exec,sync 0 0

i rebooted, and it mounted auto, but the permissions show as:
/dev/hdb2 on /backups type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

any ideas?

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22-Apr-2005, 05:11 PM #8
okie is the moutn -t etc in your fstab? if so O_O

After you add it to your fstab all you need to do is mount /dev/hdb2, it'll automatically mount it the way you want it to.
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im not 100% sure i understand what that means...

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It's alright, I installed Ubuntu and manually edited the etc/ftab file so now it works fine. I now understand a number of the console commands so I can log in as root to move things around,

Thanx for your help.

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Ok, I need some help with a couple of other mounting questions too - hence posting it back in this thread, although I couldn't mark it unsolved.

Quote:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /backups vfat rw,user,auto 0 0
That is my current fstab config. one thing i realised, is that i dont have a swap partition. i have a partition for it, it just isnt mounted - had problems during the install doing it. i have 1024mb ram, and havent had any problems as a result. i feel confident editing this file myself, i just cant figure out how to find the relevant "/dev/.../" lines for the relent device. where within Ubuntu would i be able to find that info?

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