File system access

**fluoronator** · 09-08-2007

Just partitioned my HDD and installed Mandrake. 1st experince w/ Linux, very excited w/ installation success. Winxp partition is FAT32, Linux partition is native Linux. Can see FAT32 network drives, can see USB FAT32's but can't seem to find the FAT32 partition that resides on the same HDD w/ Linux. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious... How can I navigate to this partition?

**tpl** · 09-08-2007

welcome to the forum

first, to find the name of the partition:

fdisk /dev/hda
p
q

or if you use scsi, it'll be sda;
suppose the partition is /dev/hda1--
then mount it somewhere:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
cd /mnt

most of this has to be done as root

**abhishek456** · 09-08-2007

post the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

as root and also

Code:

 cat /etc/fstab

**fluoronator** · 09-10-2007

fdisk /dev/hda
returns
bash: fdisk: command not found

Now using Fedora, was using Mandrake at original post.

**abhishek456** · 09-10-2007

try

Code:

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

if that doesn't work try it after logging as root

**fluoronator** · 09-10-2007

Got it! thanks.

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