Sharing files between two Linux partitions

[Paul Smith]

On 8/28/05, Mostafa Z. Afgani <mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de> wrote:
> >> I have two Linux partitions on my computer (but in different hard
> >> disks) and I would like to transfer some files from my Mandriva
> >> partition to my Fedora Core 4 partition. I have tried
> >>
> >> mount /dev/hdb1 /mandriva
> >>
> >> and I can access to the Mandriva partition, but my files in my home
> >> directory (in Mandriva) do not show up. I guess this problem is
> >
> > Are they simply not there, or do you get an access denied error? If they
> >  are simply not there, then I suspect they were on a different partition
> > than the / partition.
> 
> Look at (as root)
> 
> #fdisk -l
> 
> for clues (Look for other Linux partitions on your /dev/hdb).

No luck:

# fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
#

Paul