Re: accessing other partition

[Andrew Porter <andy@defsdoor.demon.co.uk>]

When you use mount you either have to tell it enough information to
mount the device or it will look in /etc/fstab for clues.

You will need to have ntfs support (read-only) either compiled into your
kernel or the module loaded and then tell mount exactly what you want to
do -

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt

or add an entry into fstab to give it the clues it needs/

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:31, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote:
> Hi
> 
> i have two partitions on my Dell Inspiron 8600, and would now wish to copy 
> files from the Windows partition to the linux side, so that i can make the 
> windows partition minimally small.
> how do i mount the Windows partition? I thought i could just
> mount the ntfs partition as /dev/hda2. but that produces a warning:
> 
> # mount: can't find /dev/hda2 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

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Andrew Porter