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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