Re: Lost partitions

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

James Hudspeth wrote:

> I recently installed Debian Sarge i386 to dual-boot with XP Home.  
> This is not the first time I have installed Linux to dual boot with 
> Windows, I used to have Mandrake/Mandriva.  With Mandrake, I could 
> access the data held on my windows partitions through /mnt/windows_c/, 
> /mnt/windows_d/ and so on.  /mnt/ is empty on my Debian install, both 
> as my user and as root.
>
> Is there any way short of re-installing that I can get Debian to 
> recognise these drives?  Could I be missing mount points, and if so, 
> how would I get them?  I mostly want access to my mp3s.
>
> Any help is appreciated ahead of time,
>
> --James.

sudo mkdir /mnt/windows_c
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows_c -o uid=james

(this assumes your C: partition is on /dev/hda1, and your username is 
james and you want james to have access to the mounted partition).

This will work for this session only; if you want it to work this way 
everytime, you'll have to put the relevant settings in "/etc/fstab".

--
Kent