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Access to other partitions

Asked by Frank

I have multiple op sys on my machine, i.e. ubuntu, mandriva & windows. I've used mandriva for years and have just started using ubuntu 14.1 as a replacement for both mandriva & windows. I have no problems accessing thw windows partition but am unable to access the mandriva partitions. Can you advise if there is a way to access these partitions?

I used gparted to see file system support. Mandriva uses reiser & reiserfs which according to the application are not supported. I guess I have the answer I was looking for. My only other question is, are their any applications that will allow me to reformat and access the partitions under ubuntu?

Thank you Manfred for your response.

I used the command, then entered the root password as requested, but it then stated the mountpoint doesn't exist. If I must, I can start from scratch and reinstall ubuntu.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Do you know which file system was used to format the mandriva partition(s)?

What is the output of the terminal command

sudo fdisk -l

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

There is support for reiserfs in Ubuntu.

Can you try manually mounting the partition with a command like

sudo mount -t reiserfs -o whatever_options /dev/devicename /mountpount

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

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To mount a file system you have to create a mount point first, i.e create a directory for mounting.
On Ubuntu there is a directory /media below which usually all other disks are mounted. Create a directory inside /media and re-try the mounting operation.

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