/dev/hda or /dev/hda1

[zed994]

hey everyone,

i am still contemplating the change to mandrake..... after obtaining Knoppix from an Australian computer magazinei attempted to play around with it, i am beginnign to really liek the concepts of linux

But when trying to mount my actual hardrive partition containing windows to test it manually through the root terminal, the command "mount /dev/hda /mnt/windows" returned false, but when i tried "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows", it worked??? isnt the primary partition known as hda and not hda1 as i was told by another member of this forum.. i am not doubting them as i am a newbie, iw was just confused and turned to the forum

Thanks

Alex

 

[AP81]

No, dev/hda1 is the first.

/dev/hda refers to the first HDD (primary master)
/dev/hda1 refers to the first primary partition on /dev/hda

 

[zed994]

Thanks alot, you kept it simple, thankyou