[Sussex] More gentoo questions - windows partition

[John D.]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 12:20, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:18:15PM +0000, John D. wrote:
> 
> > Ah, well that means that I'm missing here then. Because all it shows
> > is an empty directory. Damn
> 
> Having created the directory, what you'll then have to do is mount it:
> 
> mount -a
> 
> will achieve that, or more explicitly:
> 
> mount /mnt/c
> 
> The assumes, of course, that "/mnt/c" is the mount-point referenced in
> /etc/fstab, that points to your windows partition.

Thanks very much Thomas. That seems to have done the trick. I can now
read the screen nice and clearly with MS Tahoma font.

Having managed to get it (the windows partition) mounted with the mount
command, do I then presume correctly that it says mounted until I tell
it with the umount command ?

regards

John D.