[resolved] mounting partitiosn

Ballistic · 08-01-2005, 08:22 PM

Alright, my latest project....

Bit of background info first...I've got partition1 as my NTFS winblows partition(sda1),
partition2(sda2) is split into a FAT32 data partition(sda5), my linux swap(sda6), and linux ext3 (sda7).

I'm trying to mount sda5, but no luck so far....read the manpages for mount, fstab and mtab, and I think I'm more confused than before...I just need to know what to do in what order so I can get this fixed...

tgo · 08-01-2005, 10:09 PM

shouldnt you be mounting the ext3 partition

mkdir /mnt/test;
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/test;

should work for you

Ballistic · 08-02-2005, 02:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgo

shouldnt you be mounting the ext3 partition

It's already mounted....It's the root partition...

But thanks for the other info...

Ballistic · 08-02-2005, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgo

mkdir /mnt/test;
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/test;

eh?
/*
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
*/

Terminal's output when I tried that...Anyone know what it means?

Ballistic · 08-03-2005, 09:05 AM

Nevermind, I guess...I just modified fstab, and it works now...

08-01-2005, 08:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ballistic Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 117 OS: Currently Ubuntu, XP Pro...Various flavors of *Nix	mounting partitiosn Alright, my latest project.... Bit of background info first...I've got partition1 as my NTFS winblows partition(sda1), partition2(sda2) is split into a FAT32 data partition(sda5), my linux swap(sda6), and linux ext3 (sda7). I'm trying to mount sda5, but no luck so far....read the manpages for mount, fstab and mtab, and I think I'm more confused than before...I just need to know what to do in what order so I can get this fixed...

08-01-2005, 10:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
tgo Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 185 OS: slackware 10.1	shouldnt you be mounting the ext3 partition mkdir /mnt/test; mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/test; should work for you __________________ My new homepage:

08-03-2005, 09:05 AM	#5 (permalink)
Ballistic Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 117 OS: Currently Ubuntu, XP Pro...Various flavors of *Nix	Nevermind, I guess...I just modified fstab, and it works now...