Archive for the tag 'drive'

SBDavid
Jun 2nd, 2010

Cloning an entire drive

Cloning an entire drive

You’ll need two hard drives the same size, or a destination drive larger than the source drive.

Make sure no partitions are mounted on either drive. In this example /dev/hda is the source drive, /dev/hdb is the destination drive. The dd command makes an exact, byte-for-byte copy, including the MBR (master boot record):

# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
SBDavid
Jul 30th, 2009

Mount windows drive to linux filesystem

Mount windows drive to linux filesystem

Step 1: Take a Linux system. Install samba in your Linux system and start the service.

Step 2: Create a directory in Linux to which you will be mounting the files. Usually a subdirectory in “/mnt”

Step 3: Goto windows system. Share the drive/folder in windows system which you want to mount to Linux. Make sure that the drive/folder you are going to share is having the share permission for administrator.

Step 4: Go back to Linux system. Type the following command,

mount -t smbfs -o username=,password=,debug=4 //windowsservername or ip/drive or folder share name /mnt/share
Example:
mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=gold,debug=4 //192.168.0.1/ewin$ /mnt/windrive

Step 5: Go to the directory you have made in Linux for mounting. Now you can see all the contents in windows drive/folder in that directory.