I'm confused, are you trying to keep whats on the Windows partition or not.
'df' only shows mounted partitions, not all partitions available to your
system.  For example, some more secure systems will place /boot on its own
partition, then rail to mount it.  This makes the disk image of the Linux
kernel untouchable by malware.  If you do not mount /boot (not needed for  a
running system), then it will not show.

In this case, you have a windows drive as /dev/sda and a Linux drive as
/dev/sdb.

Have you tried this?
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#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ ! -d /mnt/windows]; then
  mkdir /mnt/windows
fi

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
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Kevin Fries



On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

> .
> There are two identical 300-gig hard disks on my computer;
> but only one is accessible. When I do 'df' I see only this:
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb5             7.7G  3.5G  3.9G  48% /
> /dev/sdb7             138G  9.5G  129G   7% /home
>
> Hardware detection shows two hard disks: sda and sdb:
>
> #1 &#8206;ATA MAXTOR STM332062
> Old device file: &#8206;/dev/sda
> Partitions Primary partitions: &#8206;1 (sda1)
> Misc Geometry: &#8206;38913/255/63 (CHS)
> Disk controller: &#8206;0 -- Module: &#8206;sata_nv
>
> #2 &#8206;ATA MAXTOR STM332062
> Old device file: &#8206;/dev/sdb
> Partitions Primary partitions: &#8206;1 (sdb1)
> Extended partitions: &#8206;3 (sdb5, sdb6, sdb7)
> Misc Geometry: &#8206;38913/255/63 (CHS)
> Disk controller: &#8206;1 -- Module: &#8206;sata_nv
>
> When I tried to use 'gparted', I see this error:
>
> error: libhal_acquire_global_interface_lock:
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.InterfaceAlreadyLocked:
> The interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage is already
> exclusively locked either by someone else or by yourself
>
> So, I booted "Part Magic" Linux live CD and screen captured
> the contents of the two hard disks as shown at these links:
>
> http://upquick.com/temp/gparted1.png
> http://upquick.com/temp/sda.sdb.png
>
> I want to use the second hard disk to backup all my files
> on the first hard disk.
>
> What do I need to do to get the second hard disk unlocked
> and mounted so I can copy all my files onto it?
>
>
>
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