Re: missing drives and partitions

[Steve Holdoway]

Roger Searle wrote:
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
   

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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


 

Sorry, you're wrong there. man df.
df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem 
containing  each  file name  argument.   If  no file name is given, the 
space available on all *currently mounted filesystems* is shown.

Under mandrake, the partitions must have been mounted at the time.
Steve