Reading multiple partitions

gauntalus · 12-25-2004, 03:40 PM

How do I go about setting up linux to read multiple partitions? I assume I need to make sure that both partitions are mounted when linux is brought up, but I'm not quite sure how to do that. I currently have a dual boot system set up, hdc1 contains windows xp on fat32, and hdc4 contains gentoo linux. I want to be able to read and write to/from hdc1 from linux. Anyone?

redjokerx · 12-25-2004, 04:16 PM

make sure an entry for that partition is added into fstab. I can't tell you how exactly because I can never remember myself.

RobertP · 12-25-2004, 04:25 PM

As root, edit /etc/fstab to add this line:
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/thatotheros vfat default 0 0

mkdir /mnt/thatotheros
creates a mount directory.
When you reboot or , as root, type
mount /mnt/thatotheros
you will be able to read the files in /mnt/thatotheros

gauntalus · 12-25-2004, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RobertP
As root, edit /etc/fstab to add this line:
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/thatotheros vfat default 0 0

mkdir /mnt/thatotheros
creates a mount directory.
When you reboot or , as root, type
mount /mnt/thatotheros
you will be able to read the files in /mnt/thatotheros

Hey, I followed your instructions using windoze in place of "thatotheros", and I could see my "C: drive" in /mnt/windoze, however, the folders/files were unuseable, all of the icons are the same, and they are all of the same type , defined as "unknown type". Have I done something wrong? I followed your instructions exactly, I also tried changing "vfat" to "fat32" but that didn't help either.

**edit**
just fixing a horde of typos

gauntalus · 12-26-2004, 02:42 AM

**bump**

MasterC · 12-26-2004, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gauntalus
Hey, I followed your instructions using windoze in place of "thatotheros", and I could see my "C: drive" in /mnt/windoze, however, the folders were unuseable, all of the icons are the same, and the type is defined as "unknown type". Have I don't something wrong? I followed your instructions exactly, I also tried changing "vfat" to "fat32" but that didn't help either.

So you can read it, but you can't... use it????

The icons are the same, the type of what is unknown?

vfat is the filesystem you will want to use, it's the linux equivilent of fat32.

If you need to write to this device, as a user, and that's your problem, then you'll need to edit the options portions of your fstab entry. This is the part where the above example has "default" listed. You'll need to edit that to at least read:

Code:

/dev/hdc1        /mnt/whatever          vfat         users,umask=007,gid=users       0         0

Cool

gauntalus · 12-26-2004, 03:36 PM

Hey, I tried changing fstab to what you said, but I'm still having problems. Now when I click open the "computer" icon on the gentoo desktop, I can see a "drive" with a green light on it labeled "windoze". However, when I double click it I get an error:

Code:

Unable to mount the selected volume. The volume is probably in a format that cannot be mounted.

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1, or too many mounted file systems.

Looks like I'm close, but I still don't understand whats wrong...

**edit** I guess to clear some things up I should be more specific, I changed default to exactly what you said, I did not substitute actual user names for "users". Also, I'm trying to acess this drive from my user account named "gauntalus".

gauntalus · 12-27-2004, 01:17 PM

**bump**