This will sound really stupid...

[Ander]

...but I'll post it anyway.

I'm using Knoppix 3.2 on CD. Today I wanted to try Wine on some Windows apps. The Windows partition I wanted was automounted as hdb5, so I typed (without the quotes):

"wine hdb5/apps"

(where "apps" was the target folder's name). Linux said "No such directory."

I then tried "cd hdb5/apps" and simply "cd hdb5". Again, "No such directory."

But I could see and access the partition in KDE. Why couldn't I get there from a console? Is this a Knoppix thing, or am I just being generally Linux-dense?

Thanks, Ander

[Stephen]

Try cd /mnt/hdb5/apps/ this assumes you have mounted the hdb5 partition as /mnt/hdb5. eg. sudo mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 in the console window.

The partition gets automatically mounted when you click on the icon in KDE but not the console.

[Ander]

Great---thanks!

Just out of curiosity: So the KDE desktop link is actually a link to the mount command, not the folder itself? After you've opened (mounted) it once, how does it know it's not necessary to re-mount that partition on subsequent clicks?

Cheers, Ander