On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:22, Stephen W wrote:

Following the hints and suggestions I get these results:

[root@localhost winstephen]* fdisk -l bash: fdisk: command not found [root@localhost winstephen]* mount -t auto /dev/hdb /mnt mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@localhost winstephen]* mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw, gid=5,mode=620 none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

I will keep trying things and reading the docs to see what more I can learn and try...

To see what partitions are on your HD's, type '/sbin/fdisk -l' (no quotes) in a terminal window, as an ordinary user. The last letter is a lowercase 'L'. That command lists all partitions on all HD's. Actually fdisk is a program to partiton a HD, but listing the partitions this way is harmless. The left column contains the devices, /dev/hd<x><y> where <x> is a lowercase letter and <y> is a number >= 1. /dev/hdc11 is the 11th partition on the master drive on the 2nd IDE port. You say the partitions are on another HD, so look for /dev/hdb<y>, /dev/hdc<y>, /dev/hdd<y> - make a directory in /mnt: 'mkdir /mnt/data0' - mount the hdc1 partition: 'mount -t auto /dev/hdc1 /mnt/data0' - list files in that partition: 'ls /mnt/data0' - unmount that partition: 'umount /mnt/data0' Cheers, Leen