Re: mounting filesystems

[alex <radsky@ncia.net>]

If I correctly understand what you want, you may like the 
way this works.

  # cd /mnt; mkdir da1
  # alias win+='mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/da1; cd 
/mnt/da1; ls -aF --color=auto'
  # alias win-='cd; umount /mnt/da1'
-------------------------------------

  # win+      (this should show all your Win files--
               you can move/copy data back and forth
               between Linux and Win and more)

   Be sure after you're finished:
  # win-

I have these two aliases plus many more in /root/.bashrc .
Very handy to access other OS, CDROM, floppies, Zipdisks
with a simple command, like  (examples) wflop+ or lflop+
+ to access and - to exit.


David Turetsky wrote:
> I am trying to read the Windows filesystems on my linux/W98/XP system. 
> Despite reusing the same entries I had in Potato in addition to those 
> generated by Woody, and checking google re ntfs entries, I am unable to 
> see those Windows filesystems, even the W98 filesystems I read on the 
> same drive under Woody
>
>  
>
> When I manually try to mount them, for example, ?mount ?a?, I get mount 
> point /c does not exist and same for /d and /e
>
>  
>
> Similarly, these entries do not show up in /etc/mtab
>
>  
>
> Here is my /etc fstab entries:
>
>  
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> /dev/hda1 /c vfat defaults 0 0
>
> /dev/hda5 / ext2 errors=remount-ro
>
> /dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
>
> /dev/hda8 /d vfat defaults 0 0
>
> /dev/hde1 /e ntfs ro,auto,owner 0 0
>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
>
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
>  
>
> --
>
> David