How to mount logical drives?

Devidas Komarath Menon dkomarat at cisco.com
Wed Mar 24 06:51:06 UTC 2004


Hi,
It worked perfectly.
Thank you every body for your help..
-- 
With Regards,
Devidas Komarath.

Cisco Systems, Inc.
'Empowering the Internet Generation'.



Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:26 am, Devidas Komarath Menon wrote:
> 
>>Hi list,
>>I have a PC with drives C,D,E,F. I edited /etc/fstab and successfully
>>mounted drive C, but iam unable to mount the other drives.
>>
>>any help is welcome!!
> 
> 
> It doesn't matter if it's logical, as long as you can find out the partition 
> name. Easiest way, try the following trial and error:
> 
> mount /dev/hdaX	/mnt/mountpoint
> 
> replace X with 1,2,3,4, etc until you find all your partition. It won't do any 
> harm. Don't forget to umount first if it sucessfully mount. If hdaX is not a 
> valid partition, you just get error message from mount (Of course, adjust the 
> device name accordingly, if this is a primary slave, then you need /dev/hdb 
> instead, etc).
> 
> Another way is using fdisk:
> fdisk /dev/hda
> 
> and then type 'p' to show you all your partition table so that you know what 
> partition number contains what. (NOTE : Be Carefull using fdisk, if you type 
> the wrong thing you may end up reformating your hard drive, but other then 
> that, it's save).
> 
> RDB
> 







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