Ubuntu second hard drive was Windows partition

[Karl Larsen]

Jesse Petre wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
>
>
>   
>>>>>     Guys STOP!!! You never ever mount a hard drive. You mount a
>>>>> PARTITION on a hard drive using /etc/fstab or mount -t ext3 ext.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Now get it in your heads that it is a partition you mount.
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> You know, I've been doing this a LONG time.  I've forgotten more about
>>>> computers than you'll probably ever know.  So let me say this loud and
>>>> clear:
>>>>
>>>> WE KNOW THAT.  We're not idiots.  However, 99 times out of 100 the
>>>> partition encompasses the entire drive, therefore, it's safe to say
>>>> 'mounting the drive'.
    In these days of BIG hard drives it is much more likely to have 
several partitions on each hard drive.


>>>>   That, by default means the partition spans the
>>>> entire drive.
>>>>         
    Not so. There is the MBR in the front of the HD and in front of the 
one partition you seem to favor.


    My point is not to show you up as wrong. It is to show you the 
proper way to state a condition. "Mount a hard drive..." is incorrect. 
You can't do this. Try to do it with fstab.

Karl

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