How to mount logical drives?

[Greg Bradner]

Other things to look at.
ls -al /proc/ide/              (show you the ide drives - hda, hdb...)
cat /proc/partitions        (show you the partitions on the drives)
fdisk -l /dev/hda            (show you the partitions on the drives)

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

>On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:26 am, Devidas Komarath Menon wrote:
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>
>>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!!
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>>
>
>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
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>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
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>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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>

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