Re: Fedora (Core 1) trying to mount ntfs HD as root, and other problems

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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:17:34 -0400

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 04:19:00 +0000, Ike wrote:

> I'm a newbie and getting very frustrated with trying to mount hda2, my ntfs
> partition, to read downloaded files needed to set up sound card and maybe a
> Lucent winmodem, (if possible). I had installed Fedora core 1 from a used
> book DVD on the 2nd HD of what had, up to then, been a WinXP PC with 2 hard
> drives. My hardware manager in Red Hat will see all hard drive partitions,
> but when linux boots, the first hard drive and the 2 gig fat32 partition on
> the second drive on which linux is installed are not mounted automatically.
> When I logged in as root iand changed to the / directory and entered #
> mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt the message came on, that tntfs filesystem was
> not supported by the kernel. So then I read a manual some more, and tried #
> mount -t fat32 /dev/hdb1 /mnt trying to mount the 2 gig partition of the
> second hd, and I get a help screen of syntax of mount commands. I used -t
> fat32 because the drive is listed that way in the hardware manager.
> The reason I was doing this was trying to practice commands and navigation
> and also to copy the downloaded hardware setup files to the fat32 partition
> (if I can't get linux to read ntfs), and run them from linux, since the
> winmodem isn't working to download anything into the linux partitions now.
> I know someone will tell me to buy another modem, but that might be too
> easy, and it would not solve my problem of how to mount the other filesystem
> partitions. BVy trying to hack the os's like this, I am learning some skills
> It would of course be more convenient if the /etc/fstab which from what I
> have been reading is the startup file would go ahead and fix the non-linux
> partitions so I could mount them as a user rather than root, if that is
> possible, but I read in my book it was very dangerous to edit the fstab,
> even if I could get a clue at his point how to do that.
Ike,

The command (# mount -t that you (# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt) are
typing (# mount -t that you (# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt) does not give
the system a mount point. A mount point is just an empty directory, but
the /mnt directory usually contains some more directories by default (e.g
/mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, etc). If you want to mount it anywhere but the
preloaded mount points in the /mnt directory, you'll have to create the
mount point by using the mkdir command. Then use the full path the the
mount point as the second argument (# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 (assuming
the you created the /mnt/hda2 directory).).

To answer your second question about allowing users to mount/umount a
device. Yes it is possible, I'd suggest googling and reading man pages to
explore all of the available options. In the future, you should post the
error messages that you recieve as well as the description of the problem.
Try to solve problems yourself first: man <command> first, info <command>
second, run a google search on the command third, read the archives to see
if the problem had been encountered before, then post a new message.

Happy computing,
William

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