On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 02:24:24PM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > I'm trying to mount my Windows98 partition from Linux > > Cannot seem to work out the command
mount -t vfat /path/to/win98/partition /path/to/mount/point For example if the Win98 partition is /dev/hda3 and you want it mounted as /mnt/win98 then the command would be mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/win98 The -t switch tells mount what the filesystem format is - vfat in this case. The last part - /mnt/win98 - is the directory that the Win98 partition will appear under. This directory can be pretty much whatever you want - to a point - but it is customary to use subdirectories under the /mnt directory. Also, this must be done as root. If you will be doing this often, I would suggest putting an entry into you /etc/fstab file. By using this file you will: 1) make the command a lot shorter and 2) make it possible to mount and unmount the other partition as a regular user. As an example here's my /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc4 /zip vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /icdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /scdrom1 iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/scd1 /scdrom2 iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /space/part1 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb2 /space/part2 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /space/part3 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /space/part4 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /space/part5 ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /space/part6 ext2 defaults 0 0 The first three uncommented lines will be found on virtually every Linux system around - they are the basic filesystem, a swap partition, and the proc filesystem. The next line is my internal IDE Zip drive. The first column shows that the device is /dev/hdc4 (master device on the second IDE channel - the 4 is because for some reason Zip disks come factory formatted with the only partition being number 4). The second column shows that the disk will be mounted at the directory /zip Now earlier I know I said that it is customary for devices mounted by users to get mounted in subdirectories of the /mnt directory. Well, it is *only* custom. In my case I decided I wanted it elsewhere. The third column shows what filesystem to mount the drive as - in this case it is vfat. The fourth column is a very important one. The user entry say that regular users are allowed to mount and unmount this entry, and the noauto entry tells the system to *not* mount this device at boot time or when 'mount -a' is issued. (mount -a tells the system to mount all devices listed in the fstab file) This entry is very important for removable media drives - if there is no disk in the drive at boot time the system gets upset. Looking further through my fstab you'll see that my Zip drive, floppy drive, and all three CDROM drives have the same user,noauto entries. The primary reason I can get away with such permissiveness is this is a single user system. If I were seeting up a "regular" multi-user system I would never do such a thing. But for the typical home system I see nothing wrong with it. The last two comlumns are related to boot time checking. Look through the man page for the mount command and the fstab file for details on what they mean, as well as more details on everything else I've gone over. > I presume the idea is to mount the entire partition and then access the > files there through ordinary Linux resources Yup, that's basically it. Once the partition is mounted you access it just like any other directory on your system. I regularly mount a couple of Win95 drives via Samba - the drives are in a completely seperate computer that is downstairs. But once I mount the drives I access them just like any other directory on my system, the only difference being that access times can be a bit slower and the Win95 drives occasionally disappearing when the 95 box crashes. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
