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I just installed ubuntu,   Everything is working fine.  But was just wonder if there was a way I could get my music which is on a fat32 partition?

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Originally posted by Curtis
I just installed ubuntu,   Everything is working fine.  But was just wonder if there was a way I could get my music which is on a fat32 partition?

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It should automount... If not, use the mount command in the terminal. (You can type man mount to get the command's documentation).

Well, could you help me with that?  I kind of don't know how to use Ubuntu really good.

well, you need to open the terminal, give yourself root, create a new folder using the mkdir command, and then mound the drive

Here is a general example:

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sudo bash
mkdir ~/mount_point
mount -t vfat /dev/hda0 ~/mount_point

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Where /dev/hda0 is the device handle of your partition (you'll need to determine that yourself) and ~/mount_point is, well, the folder you want to mount your drive...

You might also want to try:

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sudo automount

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which may or may not automatically mount your drive and add a launcher icon on your desktop.

Try reading this: brian's reply to Use Ubuntu Live to backup data

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Originally posted by Mike
Try reading this: brian's reply to Use Ubuntu Live to backup data

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Whenever I try to use the mkdir command it just says access denied.

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Originally posted by Curtis

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Originally posted by Mike
Try reading this: brian's reply to Use Ubuntu Live to backup data

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Whenever I try to use the mkdir command it just says access denied.

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try prefixing the command with the word sudo

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sudo mkdir /mnt/win

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Originally posted by Curtis
Whenever I try to use the mkdir command it just says access denied.

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If it says that, you are not root.

There are two ways to become root -- sudo, which FineWolf suggested, will ask for your user account password and run whatever you ask it to (including an interactive shell, bash) as root.  This is the preferred way, but your user account needs to be added to /etc/sudoers for that to work.  Perhaps Ubuntu setup has done that for you (I don't use Ubuntu distribution).

The other way you can become root is the su command.  Simply type "su -" (the - tells it to load the environment profile).  Note that the password required here is your root account password, not your user password.

Although it should be obvious, you can always find out whether your efforts were successful by typing "whoami".

Other than that, FineWolf's instructions are fine -- except that your FAT32 partition isn't going to be /dev/hda0, but some other number.  It should be safe to experiment or you can run fdisk ("fdisk /dev/hda") and view the partition table.

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Originally posted by Adeptus

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Originally posted by Curtis
Whenever I try to use the mkdir command it just says access denied.

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If it says that, you are not root.

There are two ways to become root -- sudo, which FineWolf suggested, will ask for your user account password and run whatever you ask it to (including an interactive shell, bash) as root.  This is the preferred way, but your user account needs to be added to /etc/sudoers for that to work.  Perhaps Ubuntu setup has done that for you (I don't use Ubuntu distribution).

The other way you can become root is the su command.  Simply type "su -" (the - tells it to load the environment profile).  Note that the password required here is your root account password, not your user password.

Although it should be obvious, you can always find out whether your efforts were successful by typing "whoami".

Other than that, FineWolf's instructions are fine -- except that your FAT32 partition isn't going to be /dev/hda0, but some other number.  It should be safe to experiment or you can run fdisk ("fdisk /dev/hda") and view the partition table.

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The Ubuntu distrib does it fact adds your account to the sudoers list. So in this case, sudo is the way to go. Also, Adaptus is right about the /dev/hda0 ... I provided an example above and it's there only to guide you. That device handle will change. You can use the fdisk command or the bundled GParted application to find out which device handle corresponds to your partition.

I used "sudo mkdir /mnt/win"

Then it asks for my password.  But won't let me type it in.

Edit: Never mind.  I figured it out.  Thanks for the help though.