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Re: Delete Win 2K partition on Debian dual boot to re-use space.



On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:11:57AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> del wrote:
> >I know it's been a while but I have been trying to do what was suggested
> >and learn at the same time but now I a little worse off as I no longer
> >have any access to the old [wiped & converted to reiserfs] 2k partition at all, whereas 
> >before [it was wiped] at least
> >it was accesible :-/
> >
> >It seems to be still there but I am having trouble with the final
> >stage of getting it to be mounted and usable.
> >
> >
> ># /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> >#
> ># <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> >proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> >/dev/hda1       /home2          reiserfs defaults        0       2
> >/dev/hda3       /               reiserfs notail          0       1
> >/dev/hda4       /home           reiserfs defaults        0       2
> >/dev/hda2       none            swap    sw              0       0
> >/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> >/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> >/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> >
> >when trying to mount as a normal user I get ... 
> >Called: mount /dev/hda1
> >mount: only root can mount /dev/hda1 on /home2
> >
> >then as root ...
> >
> >Called: mount -treiserfs -odefaults /dev/hda1 /home2
> >mount: mount point /home2 does not exist
> >
> >and /home2 has no size (N/A) in kdf.
> >
> >  
> # sudo mkdir /home2
> # sudo mount /home2

You can ommit the 'sudo' if you do this as root

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)



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