Mounting local drives

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

	This whole thing is silly. It is possible to make more directories on /
and it might be a good idea to make a directory /windows/ to mount all
those windows systems to. And another might be /swap/.


73 karl


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