Paul Smith enlightened us with the following gems on 08/28/2005 02:19 PM:
> On 8/28/05, Mostafa Z. Afgani <mostafa.afgani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>I have two Linux partitions on my computer (but in different hard
>>>disks) and I would like to transfer some files from my Mandriva
>>>partition to my Fedora Core 4 partition. I have tried
>>>
>>>mount /dev/hdb1 /mandriva
>>>
>>>and I can access to the Mandriva partition, but my files in my home
>>>directory (in Mandriva) do not show up. I guess this problem is
>>
>>Are they simply not there, or do you get an access denied error? If they
>> are simply not there, then I suspect they were on a different
>>partition than the / partition.
>
>
> The files are there - I am absolutely sure -, but
>
> /mandriva/home
>
> appears empty on Fedora.
>
> Paul
>
This sounds like a classic example of an unmounted filesystem.
mount your /mandriva partition as you described.
now:
grep home /mandriva/etc/fstab
and tell us what you see
Stuart
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