Sharing files between two Linux partitions

Mostafa Z. Afgani mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de
Sun Aug 28 13:03:27 UTC 2005


Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> 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.

> related with my permissions. Is there a different way of achieving my
> goal?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 




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