mounting problem in DSL

[romeo_8693]

i installed dsl on my pen drive.the problem is i cant mount my hard disk wic has one ext3 file sys and another ntfs.i want to know how can i mount both these drives wen i boot thru pen drive in dsl.

 

[mehulved]

There are so many threads on it. Just bother to search once atleast.
Here's how to do it

sudo mkdir /mnt/windows /mnt/linux
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/linux
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

replace /dev/hda3 by whatever your linux partition is, similarly /dev/hda1 by whatever your ntfs partition is. ntfs partition will be mounted read only.
If you don't know check the output of

sudo fdisk -l

 

[romeo_8693]

thanx 4 info but i know that!it givs some error with /dev/hda!!
btw does DSL support ntfs by default?

 

[mehulved]

you can't mount /dev/hda cos it's the whole hard disk. You can only mount partitions.

 

[romeo_8693]

wat abt ntfs support?

 

[mehulved]

I don't know, since I haven't used it. But searching in thier forum suggests ntfs read support is enabled.

 

[romeo_8693]

probably the never version.even i read so....but i cant download it...so i want to modify this one only

 

[romeo_8693]

its done...thanks!
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its done...thanks!prob was with using hdb rather than hdb5

 

[mehulved]

That's what I said in 4th post. What you were trying to do is mount the full disk. You can only mount partitions. Even if there is only one partition on the disk, you can only mount that partition not the whole disk.