On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:40:24 +0800, lina wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> >> Determine where is the disk/partition and then mount it -first attempt-
> >> as usual, i.e. (do not copy/paste, adjust it to your needs):
> >>
> >> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks. it works.
>
> Good :-)
>
> > just a little question here,
> >
> > I only have 2 partitions in hard drive, why there are 6 sdb which ranges
> > from sdb1 to sdb6.
>
> Dunno... attach the drive and give us the output of (as root):
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> > I even don't know which two exactly are the true one, so tried one by
> > one.
> >
> > are there some way to identify each? sdb.
>
> Yes, you can "label" partitions to identify them :-)
>
> Look:
>
> stt008:~# blkid|grep sdc
> /dev/sdc1: LABEL="PRUEBAS" UUID="F839-2B41" TYPE="vfat"
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> That's my small USB flash drive (128 MiB) with just one partition on it
> that's labeled "PRUEBAS" and then I can mount it by issuing:
>
> sm01@stt008:~$ umount /media/PRUEBAS
>
> stt008:~# mount -L PRUEBAS /media
>
> stt008:~# mount|grep -i sdc
> /dev/sdc1 on /media type vfat (rw)
>
> How to give a label to a partition? I always make that step when
> formatting the drive but it can be done afterwards with "tune2fs" or
>
Yeah, I also gave them name during initial formatting, which can be
recognized in Desktop environment,
but in console, not be able to do that.

Thanks, now I figured out which ones are the ones by mounted them one by
one.

Thanks again,


> "e2label" utilities (on ext2/3/4 based filesystems). Read man page for
> detailed info on how to use them :-)
>
> Greetings,
>
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> Camaleón
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Best Regards,

lina

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