Accessing Drives / Partitions

• mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 

(as root) Mount the floppy. The directory /mnt/floppy must exist, be empty and NOT be your current directory. 

• mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 

(as root) Mount the CD. You may need to create/modify the /dev/cdrom file depending where your CDROM is. The directory /mnt/cdrom must exist, be empty and NOT be your current directory. 

• mount /mnt/floppy 

(as user or root) Mount a floppy as user. The file /etc/fstab must be set up to do this. The directory /mnt/floppy must not be your current directory. 

• mount /mnt/cdrom 

(as user or root) Mount a CD as user. The file /etc/fstab must be set up to do this. The directory /mnt/cdrom must not be your current directory. 

• umount /mnt/floppy 

Unmount the floppy. The directory /mnt/floppy must not be your (or anybody else's) current working directory. Depending on your setup, you might not be able to unmount a drive that you didn't mount. 
 

Question:

If we want to mount a hard drive with a file system do we use this command? 

mount -tvFAT/dev/hdd/? 

My other question is what is hdal? 

Also I wanted to know that do we use the same commands in Unix OS that we use in Linux? 

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That is close, you need a little white space such as:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 

First, if you haven't already, scan for your drives such as:

/sbin/fisk -l 

That will show what drives the system can see and what type of filesystem is on each numbered partition.

That should get you closer.  It is possible that your linux system was not setup to support vfat, so don't get discouraged right away.
 

hda mean first IDE hard and 1 means First partition.

hda1 means first partition of first IDE hard.

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