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Byte 2.0
11-21-2002, 10:10 AM
Ok, in my syste, I have 2 hard drives,
windows on partition 1 of drive 1
Linux on partition 2 of drive 1.

Then I have a 8 GB drive windows can see, FAT32. I am trying to find this drive inside Linux. I know I will probably have to mount it, but not sure how.

MaXimum SMOKE
11-21-2002, 05:15 PM
If the Fat 32 drive you are trying to mount is the 2nd Physical hard drive. on the 1st ide, (both drives are ide), then the drive is /dev/hdb If it is also, the only partition on that physical drive then the partition is /dev/hdb1 If this is the case, and the drive already existed when you installed linux, it may already be mounted. If this is Mandrake, it probably already exists as a directory in the /mnt set of directories. Otherwise, you create a directory and issue a mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/WhaterYouCalledIt . Did this answer the question?

mindwave_21
11-22-2002, 02:09 PM
OK
First make sure what your second hardrive is called (probably something like hdb1).
Now you want to make a directory called /mnt/windows or something. (mkdir /mnt/windows)
Then you do the mount command (I think this is it):
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows -t vfat

If that works and you want an auto mounting drive, use an editor lie xedit or emacs and open /etc/fstab
then add:
/dev/hda2 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0
HTH
mindwave_21