recognizing additonal NTFS or ext3 partitions

[dan_55]

I've recently installed PC-BSD (version 0.8.1 - I'm not sure if it has auto-upgraded to ver 0.8.2 yet - but that's another issue) -

Anyway,

My computer has two hard drives, the first of which has windows on "C", extra NTFS files on "D" and "D", and then Ubuntu 5.04 on the last bit.

The second hard drive has one primary partition (where PC-BSD is running) and several logical partitions (extra NTFS and ext3 stuff).

Anyway, looking at my fstab file, here's what I got:

# File Auto-Generated by PC-BSD from /PCBSD/conf/fstab.orig
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/ad1s2b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1 /mnt/ad0s1 ntfs ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/acd0 /mnt/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0

Checking out /dev/ - I have a huge number of things that may or not be hard drives (to my newbie eyes) - ad0s1, ad0s2s1, ad0s2s2, ad0s2s1, etc.

I figure that some of these might actually relate to some of the partitions which I know exist...

However, when trying to mount (as root, in a terminal), I keep getting messages like this (and as you can see, I've tried a lot of different combinations):

PCBSD# mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/windows
mount: /dev/ad0s2 on /mnt/windows: incorrect super block
PCBSD# mount /dev/ad0s2s2 /mnt/windows
mount: /dev/ad0s2s2 on /mnt/windows: incorrect super block
PCBSD# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument
PCBSD# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/windows
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument
PCBSD# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1s2 /mnt/windows
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s1s2: No such file or directory
PCBSD# mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s2 /mnt/windows
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad1s2: Operation not permitted
PCBSD# mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/windows
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument
PCBSD# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s2s2s1 /mnt/windows
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s2s2s1: Invalid argument
PCBSD# mount /dev/ad0s1b /mnt/windows
mount: /dev/ad0s1b: No such file or directory

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here; but it would be nice to access some of the files I have spread across my other operating systems...

Any suggestions would be appreciated; I'm probably just missing one little obvious thing...

[popey]

First you need to create a mount point in your filesystem for each partition (as root), for example

mkdir /win3

Then add a line to /PCBSD/conf/fstab.orig to mount it at boot. Logical partition numbering starts at 5 so assuming the first logical partition on your second drive is ntfs add the line

/dev/ad1s5 /win3 ntfs ro 0 0

Reboot and it should be mounted.

[dan_55]

That did it...thanks for your help!