Marcia wrote: > > Dear All, > > I meant to setup my partitions differently when I installed LM8.1. I ended up > just mounting one small partition and now I would like to add or mount a > partition to give my LM and vmware more room. I have about 8 GB's of disk > space covering a masterIDE drive and slave IDE drive. I for some strange > reason only mounted my /dev/hda1 partition which is a little over 2 GB's. I > have a small swap partition then a /dev/hda6 partition that is over 4 Gb's > formatted as linux native, then a slave drive /dev/hdb which is about 2 Gb's > formatted as linux native. Neither of those partitions are mounted. I would > like to mount and use /dev/hda6 but being the newbie I am I do not know the > best way to do this without corrupting anything. What are the steps to take? > Do I do this in DiskDrake, Linuxconf, or another way? I do not want to lose > any data on the partitions. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. Thank > you very much. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia Waller >
Marcia, if you run KDE, here's a "newbie"-way : Right-click an empty spot on your desktop, then select "run command". This opens a box, whre you can type : kdf. Now, click "run". You'll now see all your partitions, provided they are mentioned in /etc/fstab. Simply select a unmounted partition, rigt-click it and select the option : "mount device". You can even open it in a file-manager right away. Here's the "pro" way : from a terminal, type : "man mount" and read carefully, taking notes ! Then, set aside ten minutes for drills, and you at least one inch taller ! If still unsuccesful, post your /etc/fstab file to the list. HTH Kaj Haulrich
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