Sharing files between two Linux partitions

Mostafa Z. Afgani mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de
Sun Aug 28 13:25:29 UTC 2005


Paul Smith wrote:
> 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
> 

how about

#/sbin/fdisk -l




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