Honesty, I installed Suse and installed KDE4.
I go to my desktop… configure and theme it… all the new stuff to
getting setup… except for one thing.
I can’t access my other partition in the file browser…
I have some packages on the other partitions that could probably be
used by the distro but I cant reach them because the partitions wont
load.
I tried the Partitioner suggestion but I dont want to risk altering
ruining my partitions.
Is there any way I can get to my other partitions, and browse them,
without making changes to them?
Revenge2K;1913564 Wrote:
>
> I can’t access my other partition in the file browser…
> I have some packages on the other partitions that could probably be
> used by the distro
You have to mount those partitions!
Mount is to attach another file system (device or partition) to the
active accessible file system (which is the one you are working on)In
order for your present opensuse to know where to attach (aka mount
point) the partition in your case you have to informe it.
you have to create a directory where the file system is going to be
mount it (mount point) for example open a terminal (Alt-F2 then type
xterm)
$ mkdir mnt_oldsuse
This will be the mount point /home/youUser/mnt_oldsuse
You must know which is the partition you want to mount.
If you do not know it in the same terminal become root (su)
#fdisk -l
or #fdisk -l | col -b | lpr
if you want to have a print out.
suppose your partition is /dev/sdc2
Now let’s mount it:
mount -o ro -t auto /dev/sdc2 /home/youUser/mnt_oldsuse
cd to /home/youUser/mnt_oldsuse and do an ls and all should be
there. Of course you can use the file manager.
Few points:
ro means read only so you will not screw… anything until you are
familiar. You can changes it to rw (read and write)
-t auto is the file type. if you know the file type like ext3 etc you
can use it to replace auto.
This mounting will last only for the session. If you want it to mount
permanently then you have to add it to the /etc/fstab file.
My preference when I am using like in your case as a temporary way to
transfer files from an old version to a new one is not to have
permanently.
To unmount it is easier
umount -v /dev/sdc2
You can always use the
$man mount
$man unmount
for more info.