Whoa - I took the old 'top-post' paradigm ONE step TOO far - I wrote the lines in reverse order also!

Shoulda said:

It is complaining that the directory '/mnt/sda10' does not exist, and 'mount' does not create it for you.

Fix this by 'mkdir /mnt/sda10', then do the mount again.

Rusty

 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-
> bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Carruth, Rusty
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:19 AM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: RE: How to mount a hidden partition?
> 
> Fix this by 'mkdir /mnt/sda10', then do the mount again.
> 
> It is complaining that the directory '/mnt/sda10' does not exist, and
> mount does not create it for you....
> 
> Rusty
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-
> > bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of joe@actionline.com
> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:08 AM
> > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > Subject: Re: How to mount a hidden partition?
> >
> > joe wrote:
> > > Why does the mount syntax shown below fail to work to mount the
> named
> > > hidden partition on my system?
> > >
> > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 10 Jan 24 11:27 sda10
> > >
> > > mount -t ext4 /dev/sda10 /mnt/sda10
> >
> > ----------------
> > ET wrote:
> > > Pls show me the output of:
> > > cat /proc/partitions
> > >
> > > And the error message you get.
> > >
> > > There is no such a thing as a 'hidden partition'.
> >
> > -----------------
> > The partition is "hidden" (to me) in the sense that it does not
> appear
> > when I use the command 'df'
> >
> > Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda5       15307020  4912896   9626124  34% /
> > udev             1020708       12   1020696   1% /dev
> > tmpfs             412276     1232    411044   1% /run
> > none                5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
> > none             1030680       96   1030584   1% /run/shm
> > /dev/sda6       71559236 17893876  50081360  27% /home
> >
> > # mount -t ext4 /dev/sda10 /mnt/sda10 ... returns this error message:
> >
> > mount: mount point /mnt/sda10 does not exist
> >
> > $ cat /proc/partitions
> > major minor #blocks name
> >  8  0  244198584 sda
> >  8  1     102400 sda1
> >  8  2   37280768 sda2
> >  8  3   26291384 sda3
> >  8  4          1 sda4
> >  8  5   15360000 sda5
> >  8  6   71680000 sda6
> >  8  7    3072000 sda7
> >  8  8   12586896 sda8
> >  8  9    4088511 sda9
> >  8 10   73722253 sda10
> > 11  0    4399296 sr0
> >
> >
> >
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