How to mount a hidden partition?

[Carruth, Rusty]

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 at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-
> bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of joe at 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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