Mount a hd with ubuntu on it

wade at wadesmart.com wade at wadesmart.com
Mon Oct 30 17:13:01 UTC 2006


10302006 1111 GMT-6

Thanks for that help Tony. 

Now that I have access to all my data. 
Quick question.

Certain things I would like to move over
like gaim settings
postit notes
fonts
maybe even mplayer settings since that was such a hassle to set up. 
Would that be advisable to do?
I went from 5.10 to 6.06LTS.

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Mount a hd with ubuntu on it
> From: Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, October 30, 2006 10:53 am
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> 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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