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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions win,unix Post 24490 by Breen on Friday 12th of July 2002 07:04:57 AM

07-12-2002

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Mounting Win Partations/directories on UNIX filesystems

It might pay to check up on the option syntax for the mount command for your UNIX machine as they can vary with UNIX flavour. For example, I can mount my WIN C drive on Linux machine (pationed with Windows) with the command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc

So for example, if you want to mount the C drive every time you log on to your machine, you could apply the following script in your .bashrc file (for BASH) or .cshrc (for C shell) in your home directory

if test -d /dosc; then
if test -s /dosc/boot.ini; then
echo "Dosc is mounted"
else
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc
fi
else
mkdir /dosc
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc
fi

which mounts the C drive on to the /dosc directory, upon startup.

Try to ensure you have no spaces in your Windows directories/files, that you are mounting to the UNIX files system.

Breen

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mounting

mounting(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					       mounting(7)

NAME

       mounting - event signalling that a filesystem is mounting

SYNOPSIS

       mounting DEVICE=DEVICE MOUNTPOINT=MOUNTPOINT TYPE=TYPE OPTIONS=OPTIONS [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  mounting  event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon when it is about to mount a filesystem.  mountall(8) will wait for all services
       started by this event to be running, all tasks started by this event to have finished and all jobs stopped by  this  event  to  be  stopped
       before proceeding with mounting the filesystem.

       The DEVICE, MOUNTPOINT, TYPE and OPTIONS environment variables contain the values of the fstab(5) fields for this mountpoint.

EXAMPLE

       A tool that should be run before mounting the /var filesystem might use:

	      start on mounting MOUNTPOINT=/var
	      task

SEE ALSO

       mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7)

mountall							    2009-12-21							       mounting(7)