Mounting local drives

[Derek Broughton]

Ray Parrish wrote:

> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>     
>>
>> Hi Ray, I always try to mount them manually first. It takes the form
>> like this:
>>
>> $ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda7 /mnt
>>
>> if you get no error messages then look at /mnt and see if your Windows
>> is there. If you get an error message, and I think you might, it should
>> lead you to a fix. When it works try the fix in /etc/fstab.
>>   
> Well, they get mounted in /media, not /nbt... The onl.y thing in /mnt is
> my swap file.

That's fine - but for most people, /mnt is a convenient place for a 
temporary, test, mount.  I'm not at all sure it's a good place to put a swap 
file.
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derek