[lug] Mounting Win partitions / Renaming localhost?

[Mr Viggy]

Mount shows basically the same as df.  I think this person wants to see 
which partitions are Windows partitions so he *can* mount them.

One way I know of is to use fdisk.  However, you want to be really 
careful with this, as it can change your partition settings, which would 
screw up your disk.

Do 'fdisk /dev/hda'.  Then, at the prompt, hit 'p' and enter.  This will 
print out the partition table for /dev/hdb, including how each partition 
is formatted.  Now, hit 'q' to quit without saving.

Be sure to write down which are your fat or fat32 partitions.  Now, just 
make the entries into the /etc/fstab file!

Viggy

j davis wrote:
> 
>> I have two questions:
>>
>> 1.  I'd like to mount two of my Windows partitions under Red Hat 7.3, 
>> but 'df' only shows mounted partitions, and 'cat /proc/partitions' 
>> only shows how many there are, not what file systems they use.  I have 
>> hda1 through hda8.  How do I figure out which ones are my Windows 
>> partitions?
> 
> 
> issue the command "mount" this will tell you all the mounted
> file systems
> 
>>
>> 2.  Both my computers are named localhost.localdomain.  I'd rather 
>> give each one a unique name, such as billybob.westvirginia and 
>> suebob.westvirginia.  I read the manpages on how to do the renaming, 
>> but when I actually renamed them, other programs started giving me all 
>> sorts of errors.  Can I only change the name during installation of 
>> Linux, or is there some other step I missed?
> 
> 
> goto /etc/sysconfig change the file network
> also check out /etc/hosts
> 
> jd
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John D
>>
>>
>>
>>
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