In /etc/fstab, the three entries here show your Windows partitions:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000
If you want to access your Windows partition(s) under Linux, you have to mount the partitions to their mountpoint.
Let's examine the first line and break it down so you'll understand what it means:
/dev/hda1 is the first partition on the primary drive (/
device/
hard
drive
apartition
1 is an easy way to remember it)
/mnt/hda1 is the mountpoint, or "local directory" where that partition gets "mounted" to the filesystem
vfat indicates the filesystem Linux will use to access the partition. FAT32 is accessed using the vfat module. (
man mount for more detailed information.)
noauto tells the system not to automatically mount the partition during boot time.
users indicates that all users can mount this partition, not just root.
The rest you can safely ignore for now, as it's not pertinent for accessing your Windows partitions under Linux.
Now that we have a good idea on what all that means, let's put it together now...
To mount the first Windows partition (/dev/hda1) to it's mountpoint (/mnt/hda1) type this:
user@host$ mount /mnt/hda1
To see if it was successful, unless you received errors to let you know it didn't work, you can either type
mount all by itself, which will list the mounted filesystems, or you can look in the directory to see what's there:
If everything worked properly, you should get a directory listing of /mnt/hda1
You can do the same thing to mount your other partitions, as well as your floppy and CD-ROM drives. Just look at your fstab entries to see what the filesystems are and where the mountpoints are, and you shouldn't have any problems. If you still have trobule, feel free to let me know.
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