with mandrake, running df would show all the drives, only the fat32 one was specifically mounted in fstab - the other ntfs ones were not mounted there. I had simply expected to see the same thing.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 August 2004 9:12 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: missing drives and partitions you fundamentally misunderstand df. df only shows disk free on mounted drives. mount your windows partitions and df will show how much is used on those partitions. On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:37:03 +1200 (NZST) Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have a few things to do on my SuSE install. First thing I need help > with is finding my drives again. I have 2 drives in the machine so expect to > be seeing hda and hdb. All I have right now are the linux partitions. > Previously when running mandrake I would see 7 partitions, the 3 below, and > another on hdb (ntfs?) and 3 on hda (2 are ntfs, another is fat32). What I am > trying to do is mount the fat32 partition so I can get to my email store and > other files. > > athlon:/home/roger # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdb7 8744304 3151688 5148424 38% / > tmpfs 258348 12 258336 1% /dev/shm > /dev/hdb5 6040288 33936 5699516 1% /home > athlon:/home/roger # > > been to man df, no help. The partitions didn't die on the way home last > night, I can see and access them in windows. Any ideas? > > Roger > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
