Mounting partition on ad hoc basis

From: Roger Redford (condor_222_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: 31 Oct 2003 09:18:08 -0800

HI all,

My machine is an XP and Linux dual boot machine.

Only XP is on C: primary.

The secondary drive is partitioned into:

1st partition: FAT32
- this is seen by XP, and is used for backup

Extended partition:
- contains all Linux logical partitions.

When I installed Linux, I did not look at the first
partition at all. There is no entry for it in
/etc/fstab

I would like to mount this partition on an ad hoc basis
for backup. But I don't want it to be mounted upon startup.

This command worked:

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt -r -t vfat

I could see the drive.

However, I wanted to mount it as /backup
not /mnt, but it didn't work.

mount /dev/hdb1 /backup -r -t vfat
mount: mount point /backup does not exist

How can I mount this partition as /backup?

Thanks

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