Mounting Accident

[Xirul]

Hi,

I started using Linux (Debian distr.) a week or two ago. I have two hard drives, each with a single partition; one has Windows (hda), the other has Linux (hdb).

I installed Wine, but for Wine to work it needs to access my Windows drive. Plus, I would rather import all my music directly through Linux than go on Windows, put it all on external memory, etc etc.

So I toyed around with the

mount

command, but I accidentally did:

mount /dev/hda1 /

Now my Windows drive is mounted on /, but it doesn't show up there. And if I try to unmount it, it won't let me (even with the -f option), and if I try to mount / to somewhere else it just mounts Linux.

How can I mount my Windows drive to an accessible directory?

I tried changing the fstab/mtab files, but that didn't help.

Thanks for any help .

[Juan Pablo]

I installed Wine, but for Wine to work it needs to access my Windows drive. Plus, I would rather import all my music directly through Linux than go on Windows, put it all on external memory, etc etc.

No, you don't need access to your Windows partition to use WINE

mount /dev/hda1 /

Don't ever try to mount anything in / , this is where your files and the system are. Mount in a place like /media/win_c or something like that.

If you want exact commands or fstab lines, post the output of
df -h
fdisk -l

as root

[Xirul]

Results of df -h:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1              53G  5.9G   45G  12% /
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   68K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm

Results of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
254 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30521 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16002 * 512 = 8193024 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           6       30521   244155838+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1        6994    56179273+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            6995        7297     2433847+   5  Extended
/dev/hdb5            6995        7297     2433816   82  Linux swap / Solaris

[devils casper]

execute this

su
mkdir /media/win_c
mount -t ntfs  /dev/hda1  /media/win_c  -o defaults,umask=0

check /media/win_c folder.

add this line in at the end of /etc/fstab file to auto-mount Windows partition at boot up

/dev/hda1   /media/win_c   ntfs   defaults,umask=0 0 0

[Xirul]

Ah! Thanks, devils_casper.

[devils casper]

you are Welcome Xirul.
you can have write access in NTFS partition too. install ntfs-3g package.

su
apt-get install ntfs-3g

replace ntfs with ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab file. execute "mount -a" command OR reboot machine. check if you are able to delete/edit/create files in NTFS partition ( /media/win_c).