mounting other partitions

hi all,
I am very new to LINUX...
I installed FC3...I tried to mount the other partitions on my HDD doing this...
1-mkdir /mnt/drive1
2-mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/drive1

when I browse the folder I can see the other partition..however,I have to do this everytime I restart my PC...someone told me I to write some lines in a file called fstab...I dont know exactly what to write?? please help...
thnx

You need the option -t to for the type of partition:
-> mount -t vfat /dev/..... (fat and fat32 partitions)
-> mount -t ntfs /dev/..... (ntfs partitios)

Hope this help.

try this https://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

dipal_z said:

try this h**p://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

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thank you so much...this helped a lot.... :wink:

but ntfs filies doesnt work

to mount ntfs, see the following links:
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Use the mount and umount commands.

This example mounts a CD drive:

# mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom


-r means read-only; -t iso9660 is the filesystem type. /dev/scd0 is the name the kernel assigns to the device. /cdrom is the directory in which it is mounted. The /cdrom directory must already be present before you try to mount the disk.

To find the filesystem type, use the file command:

$ file - < /dev/scd0

/dev/stdin: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'Data1


You can omit the -r (read-only) flag when mounting a CD-ROM. It will complain, but it'll mount the disk anyway:

# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom

mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only


This mounts a floppy disk readable/writable:

# mount -w /dev/fd0 /floppy


The following command mounts a USB storage device. The noatime option should be used on rewritable media that have a limited number of rewrites, such as CD/DVD-RW and flash storage devices:

# mount -w -o noatime /dev/sda1 /memstick


To unmount the device, use:

# umount /memstick

mr_byte31 said:

but ntfs filies doesnt work

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If your kernel does not support NTFS there is no way you can mount them. Posting Kernel version might fetch you some help.