how to mount feisty partition from dapper

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Fri Nov 16 17:51:30 UTC 2007


anthony baldwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Feisty automagickally mounts my dapper partition,
> but, dapper does not mount the feisty partition,
> and, I have not been able to do so manually.
> 
> I added
> /dev/hda3       /media/feisty   auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> to /etc/fstab
> 
> then tried
> 
> tony at somedamnedthang:~$ sudo mount /media/feisty
> 
> and got
> 
> mount: mount point /media/feisty does not exist
> 
> tony at somedamnedthang:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda3
> 
> gives me the same thing.
> 
> omgwtfbbq
> What am I doing wrong?

You ready for your big D'oh moment?

the mount point has to exist (as a directory) before you can mount it. 
sudo mkdir /media/feisty should do it.




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