Re: mount partition

[Nigel Wade <nmw ion le ac uk>]

caroni caroni wrote:
> I used to have a dual boot system, now i convert the windows partition 
> to a linux native partition, and create another partition to re-mount my 
> system(since i deleted windows partition i didnt have boot) now, i have 
> a backup archive in /dev/hdb5, my system is in /dev/hdb8.
> how can i acces the data on /dev/hdb5 ?
> i try like root to navigate until , but dont show anything
> the partition have map

If you simply want to mount /dev/hdb5 to access the data contained on it you 
need to manually mount it, or add an entry for it in /etc/fstab.

To mount it manually, as root, first create a directory to mount it onto 
which is where it will appear in the filesystem - e.g. mkdir /data.

Then mount the disk on that directory
# mount /dev/hdb5 /data

To add an entry to fstab so there is a permanent record of the mount point 
add a line such as:

/dev/hdb5        /data                  auto

Depending on the filesystem type you may need to add additional options to 
the mount command, see the mount and fstab man page for details.

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