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Mount partition in Austrumi?

  • 23-04-2008 2:06am
    #1
    riddik
    Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭


    Hi,
    Not a regualar Linux user, but I am currently trying to use Austrumi 1.4 to access files on a dying HD before reinstalling windows, i've successfully mounted my HD to mnt/hda1/ but i cant figure out how to mount my external drive so i can copy these files... any help would be appreciated
    Thanks


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  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Can't say I've heard of it before. So you've managed to mount the HD on the way out?

    What filesystem is your external drive using? I hope it's either FAT32 or ext3 or else you'll run into trouble. If it is formatted with NTFS, you can try using another distro that has NTFS-3G support out of the box to allow write access to NTFS-formatted partitions.

    I guess you're trying something like this, as root, for FAT32:

    mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

    (where sda1 is the first partition of the first SATA device; external storage is commonly recognised in newer distros as such).

    But if your current HD is mounted to /mnt, do something like:
    mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /root/Desktop/temp
    (just make sure the directory 'temp' exists first).


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