You only need to create the mount point /win... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Beever" <roger2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:09 PM Subject: Re: Mounting partition > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 00:48, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > > On November 16, 2003 03:04 pm, Roger Beever wrote: > > > I'm fairly new at this so please have a giggle if you want to. > > > I have spent a few hours with the manual but either I did not catch a > > > vital point or the manual is in error. The examples are never the one > > > that fits what you actually want to do are they ;-) > > > When I installed my RHEL 3 system last week I made a 2 gig vfat partiton > > > but it does not appear to be mounting when I boot the system. df does > > > not list it for example. > > > The machine is dual boot with all the Linux on a new drive plus some > > > added windoz space on the rest of the drive (left as free space and > > > added after the Linux install as I wanted that to be ntfs). > > > Fdisk (p option) shows the partition is still there and I have added a > > > test text file from windoze which wrote to it OK. > > > Given the partition I want to mount is hdb3 and the mount point I gave > > > it was /win how do I go about geting it to mount. > > > > > > Assume if you like that the /win may have not worked and start from a > > > partition hdb3 with no point point and take it from there if is easier. > > > Thanks in advance > > > Regards Roger > > > > > > Hi, > > use: > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdb3 /win > > > > Once you can mount it properly, you'll want to add an entry to /etc/fstab to > > it mounts when you boot, or so you can just issue 'mount /win' to mount it. > > -- > > Pete Nesbitt, rhce > Thought the -t was the key as I had missed that bit but... > copy of command and result. > ........... > root@roger2 roger]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb3 /win > mount: mount point /win does not exist > ................. > result of fdisk p option > .............. > Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 14 5112 40957717+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb3 5113 5373 2096482+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdb4 5374 9729 34989570 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdb5 5504 9729 33945313+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdb6 5374 5503 1044162 82 Linux swap > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > ............... > Where am I going wrong? > Roger > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
