On Monday 28 May 2007 09:37, Damon Register wrote:
I have a PC with XP and SuSE 10.2 in a dual boot setup. I want to be able to access a FAT32 partition from SuSE. In the past that was fairly easy and I remember previous versions automatically detecting and mounting the windows partitions during the SuSE installation.
Now I don't see the FAT32 partition from SuSE. I tried manually mounting but that just gives an error message about the resource being busy (or something like that).
If the error message is that the resource (in this case a disk partition) is busy, then just about the only thing that could indicate is that the partition is already mounted. (At least I can't think of another condition within the system that could lead to that response.) So probably the file system is mounted and you can see where (on which directory) by using the "mount" or "df" commands. The other possibility is that you've mistaken one of your Linux disk volumes (partitions) for the FAT32 partition, and are trying to (re-) mount that. You can verify what's on a disk with the "file" command, provided you give the "-s" option (otherwise it tells you that the target is a disk): % file /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: block special (8/1) For this, however, you'll probably need root permissions. # file -s /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: ReiserFS V3.6 block size 4096 (mounted or unclean) num blocks 73254384 r5 hash Note, too, that the fact that file system is mounted (or was not successfully unmounted the last time it was used) is noted (not all file systems types get this extra indication, however; XFS does not, e.g.). When in doubt, you can brute-force this to find the right partition: First, the SCSI or SATA drives: # file -s /dev/sd* /dev/sda: x86 boot sector /dev/sda1: ReiserFS V3.6 block size 4096 (mounted or unclean) num blocks 73254384 r5 hash /dev/sdb: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x48 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdb2: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR /dev/sdb3: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 1048240 pages /dev/sdb4: x86 boot sector, extended partition table /dev/sdc: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x48 /dev/sdc1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdd: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x48 /dev/sdd1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdd2: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) /dev/sdd3: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) Next, the IDE drives (for me, that's just optical drives and only one currently has a disc inserted): # file -s /dev/hd* /dev/hda: writable, no read permission /dev/hdc: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'SU1000.001 ' (bootable)
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Damon Register
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