Re: How do i access drives?

["Benjamin T. White" <ben@whitehouselocal.bgsm.edu>]

Hello,

To access a drive in Linux (or any other Un*x for that matter) you have to 
mount the device at a mount point in the existing file system.  To mount my 
DOS partition i use this:

mount /dev/hda2 /dos -t msdos
            ^     ^        ^
            |     |        Refers to the file system type you are mounting
                  The mount point, an empty directory in your filesystem
            Refers to the device being mounted.  In this case the 2nd
            partition of the a IDE hard drive

To mount the floppy drive use something like this

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos

For more info read the mount(8) man page.

Oh, by the way, the unmount command is umount (without the n) for some unclear 
reason.

Ben
bewhite@bgsm.edu


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