Accessing Hard drive

[sandeepsudeep]

Hi

How do i Access the hard drive.The aim is to read few blocks from the hard drive and copy those information into the buffers.Do advise..

sandeep

[Giax]

1) Find out what block the device (hard drive) is in /dev/
this is usually in the format device_type device_letter partition_number
e.g. hdb2 is the hard drive (hd) named b, partition 2
2) mount the device file system. i.e. make hd contents accessible to linux
use the following command:

mount -t type file_system_to_be_mounted mount_point

e.g.

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2 /mnt/ProjectWork

Hope this answers your question