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Thread ID: 30828	2003-03-04 07:10:00	/mnt Seems to be playing up?? Or have I missed something here?	Chilling_Silence (9)	Press F1

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125484	2003-03-04 07:10:00	Having installed linux on my HDD, I naturally want access to my FAT32 HDD's that are home to my MP3 and Music Vid shares... but it wont mount?! Here's some images of what it's s'posed to be.. what doze and Partition Magic think it should be: sal.neoburn.net sal.neoburn.net Only it comes up saying this in Linux when I mount hda1 or hda2: Mounting Local Filesystems: mount: /dev/hda1: unknown device mount: /dev/hda2: unknown device Mounting other filesystems Bogus Loical sector something something something.... :( Whats wrong? FAT32 recently formatted... (few days ago) What do I do? Thanks Chilling_Silence	Chilling_Silence (9)
125485	2003-03-04 08:49:00	From what I see the music is on hdb1 and your videos are on hdc1	mikebartnz (21)
125486	2003-03-04 22:01:00	What I've put on the HDD_PM pic is what they are currently found as. ive made folders and set everything to mount, so hdb1 is: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 auto defaults 0 0 does that help?	Chilling_Silence (9)
125487	2003-03-04 22:36:00	If there isa mount point called /mnt/blah, blah is just a directory under the /mnt directory . It can contain files . Only when a disk or partition is mounted to it does it "contain" the files/directories on that hardware device . The /dev devices are pseudo directories . They give the system enough information to access the devices . Some are even pseudo devices: /dev/nul is the bit bucket, /dev/random gives (pseudo :D)random numbers, /dev/zero gives zeroes . If you made "directories" /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 you succeeded in destroying the information in the original entries . Entries in the /dev directory are SPECIAL, and not made by makedir . To use makedev you have to know what you are doing . :D Do a "ls -l /dev/hd* | more" and you will see the damage . To find out the names the detected disks are given by Linux have a look at dmesg . It will show you all disks found, though now you have zapped the hda entries, your first IDE drive might be missed . IDE drives are called /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc . . . The first partition on hda is hda1, the second is hda2, etc . These are the physicaldevice names . You can't change those, without the system taking its revenge . You mount these devices to directories, which are the mount points . You can mount any device to any mount point . You usually have special entries (these days in the /mnt directory to make this obvious: I prefer to know what I'm doing, so I call my mount points whaqtever I please, and have them under "/") . You can mount a disk (say /dev/hdc1) holding a Windows installation to "/" . Linux won't work for long like that, but you can do it .	Graham L (2)
125488	2003-03-04 22:56:00	hdb1 is the first partition on the second disk(disk 1)which according to your Disk manager is your music partition and hdc1 is the first partition on your third drive (disk 2) which is your video partition. > What I've put on the HDD_PM pic That is wrong because hdb is the second drive (Drive 1) From your first post >Mounting Local Filesystems: >mount: /dev/hda1: unknown device >mount: /dev/hda2: unknown device hda1 is the first partition in the first drive (drive 0) and hda2 the second partition both being ntfs. >/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 auto defaults 0 0 I would change auto to fat32 I'm not in Linux at the moment so can't show you how fstab should be but will get back tonight from Linux.	mikebartnz (21)
125489	2003-03-04 23:23:00	Yes, I know what the fstab is supposed to look like, and I used mkdir to make folders in /mnt when I was root, and then used chmod 777 /mnt/hda1 all the way thru to /mnt/hdc1 I never tried to make any directories in the /dev folder, as I do know that its a system generated thing or the like and that its kinda not for me to touch :-( hda1 should be my Windows C: (System Disk) but its not, my fstab looks like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 defaults 0 0 And the funny thing is, it mounts the folders as shown in the HDD_PM.png file! I do cd /mnt/hda1 and it comes up.. type: ls -la and it shows up blank do cd /mnt/hdc1 then type ls -la and I get my music disk, FAT32 as well, so I dunno what its going on about it doesnt recognise the fat32 plugin or whatever. Do cd /mnt/hdb1 and type ls -la and I get my System Disk (C: in doze)! NTFS too!!!!! Read-Only of course, but I can read it!!! What I wanna know is why it may have screwed up like that. I'll copy and paste my exact fstab file when I get home from work tonight, but those are the only modifications I have made to it, the rest are defaults, Ive installed the ntfs rpm fine, as I did all the checks and it is reading System Disk fine too! Why might it have gone up the creek?? Anything else I should have a look at? Thanks guys Chilling_Silence	Chilling_Silence (9)
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