mount windows partition

[doggiebone]

Hi guys

in redat 7.3 I was able to mount my windows 98 partition and access. however, in redhat 8.0 its not the same. Simply how do I mount my windows partitions in RH8.0 and access it.

this is the error I'm currently getting

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
mount: can't find /mnt/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

[JimH]

in redat 7.3 I was able to mount my windows 98 partition and access. however, in redhat 8.0 its not the same.

Nothing has changed. You are doing something wrong.

Post a copy of /etc/fstab and the output of sfdisk -l

Jim H

[doggiebone]

Hi Jim

sorry for taking so long to get back to you.
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Disk /dev/sda: 522 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 521 522- 4192933+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

Disk /dev/hdc: 13328 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 483840 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 0+ 1852 1853- 875511 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdc2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

Disk /dev/hda: 2434 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 1215 1216- 9767488+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1216 2433 1218 9783585 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda5 1216+ 2324 1109- 8908011 83 Linux

[trommaster]

without a copy of /etc/fstab i can only guess, but this is what i think:

mount: can't find /mnt/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

you are tying to mount the drive onto a folder called /mnt/hda1. maybe your old one was called /mnt/windows?
you will have to edit /etc/fstab and fix the line relating the windows drive to point to the correct folder name.

maybe if you post /etc/fstab, and the output of : ls /mnt

Alastair

[doggiebone]

Hi m8

when I mounted my windows partition in RH7.3 I only edited the /etc/fstab. As you've pointed out the /etc/mtab do I need to edit this too?. Cos I only edited the /etc/fstab in Rh8.0

doggiebone

[trommaster]

no, you only have to edit one of them.
post the things I/JimH told you to post and we should be able to get you fixed up

[doggiebone]

ok heres the last bit the /etc/fstab this works on RH7.3

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda1/mnt/winhdauto user,defaults 0 0

[trommaster]

right i think this is your problem.
there is a folder in /mnt called hda1, but the line in /etc/fstab says it should be called /mnt/winhd
you will have to change one of them so they both say the same thing (im refering to the last line on fstab)

Alastair

[doggiebone]

Ok m8

I'll check it out when I get home as I'm at work and I'll let you know if it works Mind you I can't see why it should not.

thanks for your help

[doggiebone]

;D Hi alaster

Just like to say I've got everything working ok now. Thank you for you help, much appreciated

doggiebone