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Zerileous

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Jun 21, 2002
My current fedora install is the default setup for a workstation on an 8 gig secondary. I also have a 120 running windows in ntfs with a 15gb pattion cut out and in fat32. I cannot get this drive to mount or see it. I have tried in the menue thing, i have tried "mount hda1" and "mount hda2" in both the terminal and in the run command box. I am sure i am missing something simple but what is it?
 
If you type
fdisk -l
in a terminal window as root can you post the output? If the 15GB partition is after the windows partition then it would probably be /dev/hda2 unless windows made it an extended partition then it'll be /dev/hda5 I think. Anyway when you post the output of that command I'll be able to tell you better. Also you'll have to make a mount point to mount the drive to. For example you'll have to make a directory called /mnt/drive or whatever you want with the mkdir command like this
mkdir /mnt/drive
Then you'll mount the partition like this
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/drive
That should get you running.
 
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this is what i get:
[root@localhost justin]# fdisk -1
bash: fdisk: command not found
 
If you type
Code:
whereis fdisk
it should tell you the path that fdisk is in. Alternatively you can use
Code:
su -
in order to load any environmental variables (PATH in this case) when you switch users. Also for your fdisk command the argument is the letter L and not the number 1.

-DarkArctic
 
sweet, that works, its in sbin/fdisk, and running sbin/fdisk -l from /. works,
thanks to you two and rogerdugans.
 
I've been helping out a bit, but as always, I am lost half the time. :)

kaltag and DarkArctic had the answers, I only added a bit of prodding here and there. ;)
 
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