mount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/windows you may need to create the directory /mnt/windows. You will also need to be root to mount the drive. To be able to write to it as your user you'll need to add:
-o uid=500 (or whatever your userid is. to find out your uid just type in the command id.) make sure to read man mount from the command-line. it'll teach you everything you need to know about mount. When you are ready to mount windows network shares ask us. It's a little bit of a pain until you get it right. Art On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:24, Andrew Hunter wrote: > Hi. A couple of questions first, then the (hopefully) necessary data to > answer them. > > 1) How does one mount a FAT32 partition? I would like to know how to > do this on a session-only basis (i.e., a mount command for the single > session) as well as permanently, so that it is already mounted when the > system loads. > > 2) What is the current ability of Linux (Red Hat 8.0, in my case) to > mount and safely read/write an NTFS partition? > > The data: > > I have 2 physical drives. The Hardware Browser is describes the drives > as follows: (please forgive the clumsy ASCII representation of the very > nice GNOME window) > > Device Start End Size Type > =========================================================== > +/dev/hda > hda1 1 3824 29996 ntfs > +hda2 3825 14588 84435 Extended > +hda5 3825 11473 60001 ntfs > +hda6 11474 11486 102 ext3 > +hda7 11487 14425 23054 ext3 > hda8 14426 14588 1279 linux-swap > 14589 14589 8 Free space > > +/dev/hdc > hdc1 1 574 4503 FAT > +hdc2 575 3737 24811 Extended > +hdc5 575 1148 4503 FAT > hdc6 1149 3737 20309 FAT > > My immediate goal is to permanently mount the 20 GB drive on the second > physical drive. I would like to be able to temporarily mount any drive, > on an as-needed basis. Help is much appreciated. Thanks-- > > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
