[Sderby] Accessing Windows partitions

[Mini Mike]

Ian,

All devices are represented by a file in /dev.

There are four IDE devices

hda - Primary master
hdb - Primary slave
hdc - Secondry master
hdd - Secondry slave

Each partition has a number:

1-3 - Primary partition
4 - Extended partition
>=3D5 - Logical partition

If it is a paritionless disk. eg CDROM then the number is omitted.

SCSI disks are represented in the same way, but start sd*.

Mike.

On Thursday 03 October 2002 07:37, Ian Simpson wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I have two HDs, one 20GB partitioned 4 ways (drives C, D, E, F),
> all being used by WinMe and one 6GB that I put Linux on.
>
> When I browse around using Konqueror, or view the file system
> from a shell window, I can see a /windows directory directly
> under Root.  Inside this directory are 4 more called C, D, E and
> F. If I try to view the contents of these directories, either as
> root or user:ian, they all appear to be empty.
>
> If I list the contents of the /windows directory in a shell
> window I get...
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2  root  4096  Aug 18  17:22  C/
> drwxr-xr-x  2  root  4096  Aug 18  17:22  D/
> drwxr-xr-x  2  root  4096  Aug 18  17:22  E/
> drwxr-xr-x  2  root  4096  Aug 18  17:22  F/
>
> I still can't get my head around *nix's way of referring to
> drives - does 'hda' refer to a physical drive or a partition?
> and apart from behind with your wellies on, just what is a mount
> point?
>
> Confused from Derby.
>
> On 02/10/2002 at 22:33 you wrote:
> >Ian,
> >
> >Not quite sure what you've tried.  How do you mean it
>
> aknoledges that the
>
> >partitions are there?  Have you tried to mount them?  If not,
>
> then get a
>
> >shell and su to root.  Next, issue the command:
> >
> ># mount -t vfat <device> <mount point>
> >
> >Where <device> is /dev/ device file eg. /dev/hda5 and <mount
>
> point is the
>
> >directory to mount to eg /mnt/C.  Make sure that this directory
>
> exists.
>
> >Mike.
> >
> >On Wednesday 02 October 2002 19:01, Ian Simpson wrote:
> >> Hi Chaps,
> >>
> >> Can anyone please explain (in words of 1 syllable or less)
>
> how
>
> >> to set Mandrake up so I can read / write to my Windows
> >> partitions?  Suse managed it by default but for some reason,
> >> although it acknowledges the partitions are there, Mandrake
> >> won't display the contents :-(
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>   Ian
>
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