Mount a hd with ubuntu on it

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Mon Oct 30 16:53:44 UTC 2006


Wade,

wade at wadesmart.com wrote:

> Here are the details on the drive:
> *-disk
> volume: 0
>  desc: HPFS/NTFS partition -> this was my Windows XP fallback
>  logical name: /dev/hdd1
> volume: 1
>  desc:Linux filesystem partition
>  /dev/hdd2
> volume: 2
>  desc: Extended partition
>  /dev/hdd3
> 
> I want to get access to /home.

Presumably, /home was mounted from the second partition as none of the
others are suitable candidates. I suggest you try:

	sudo mount /dev/hdd2 /mnt

and then cd /mnt and see what is there.

Regards,
Tony.
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