Can't access 2nd Windows partition

[kb9tua]

with Puppy 0.9.8, I was able to access both of my windows partitions. With Puppy 1.0, I can't access it. How may I regain this function?

[Rich]

they should still be there.
if you use rox ( easiest way ) you should find windows stuff in /mnt/home directory

[Flash]

Of course, the wizard must first "mount" them. Heh heh.

[kb9tua]

When I run Puppy Drive Mounter, it says that there are no windows partitions found. /mnt/home is my first windows partition. My linux drive partitions are mounted. My cdroms and floppy are able to be mounted.

[danleff]

A bug in probedisk/probepart?

Try running probepart in RXVT. See if you see your vfat partitions (if they are detected) in the resulting list?

[Bruce B]

When it comes to mounting devices with Puppy Linux, the sky is the limit.

I'll show some examples of how i do it sometimes. I run probepart, I get an output like this:

• /dev/hdc|iso9660|0|PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A
  /dev/hda1|vfat|1863477|Win95 FAT32
  /dev/hda2|swap|273105|Linux Swap
  /dev/hda3|ext2|8032500|Linux Ext2Fs
  /dev/hda4|none|6329610|Win98 Extended (LBA)
  /dev/hda5|ext2|1863477|Linux Ext2Fs
  /dev/hda6|ext2|4466007|Linux Ext2Fs
  /dev/scd0|iso9660|0|PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A

There are some partitions one does not want to mount:

• the Linux Swap
  the Extended partion
  the 'home' partition

probepart doesn't tell which is home, or what is mounted. it just tells you whatcha got.

If you don't know which the home partition is, find out by running mount. This is my output:

• rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
  tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw)
  none on /proc type proc (rw)
  none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
  /dev/hda3 on /mnt/home type ext2 (rw)
  /dev/loop1 on /root type ext2 (rw)
  /dev/loop0 on /usr type squashfs (ro)
  none on /usr type unionfs (rw,dirs=/root/.usr=rw:/usr=ro,debug=0,err=tryleft,delete=all,copyup=preserve,setattr=left)
  /dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type vfat (rw)
  /dev/hda5 on /mnt/hda5 type ext2 (rw)
  /dev/hda6 on /mnt/hda6 type ext2 (rw)

Note that home is hda3, it is already mounted on /mnt/home, so you don't need to concern yourself with this.

You can make a script file to mount your other partitions. This is what I'll show you how to do.

Taking the information I gathered from mount and probepart, I want to mount hda1 hda5 hda6, I'll call the script file /root/my-applications/bin/mhd

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#!/bin/sh
# I can make my own mount points
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
# I can also use the predefind ones as shown below
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt/linux2
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt/linux3

Before I reboot the computer, I need to unmount the devices, so I make another script to unmount the devices. I'll call it /root/my-applications/bin/uhd

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#!/bin/sh
umount /mnt/dos
umount /mnt/linux2
umount /mnt/linux3

In order for the scripts to be executable, the file properties need to be set. I generally use 755

# chmod 755 /root/my-applications/bin/?hd

I hope this helps. And as you know, there are many valid ways to mount devices. This is just one of many.

You can run these scripts on the command line, make shortcuts on the desktop with Rox, or make menu items for them.

[Lobster]

that info is now here

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/MounTing