Mounting various devices

[fubeca6]

I'm having trouble mounting my Vista partition through the terminal. I'm typing

sudo mount -t ntfs dev/sda3 /media

but that's where I'm getting tripped up, because I'm fairly confident that my mount-point is "40 GB Filesystem" and I'm unable to change the name. So I guess the real question is how to open files/directories that have spaces in them in the terminal.

I've read the man page, and also docs on help.ubuntu.com, but haven't been able to figure out a solution. I'm sure it's an easy fix. Oh, also I can't figure out how to mount a DVD drive or USB from the terminal. Please help!

[Miyavix3]

I'm not sure you can directly mount storage devices directly on /media.
Make a folder inside /media

Then mount at /media/folder:

sudo mount -t ntfs dev/sda3 /media/folder

If you have any concern as to which partition is which:

sudo fdisk -l

[fubeca6]

I ended up figuring it out. it was

 sudo mount -t /dev/sda3 /media/sda3

Bleh, knew it was just something simple. thank you for the help tho!

[fubeca6]

If anyone is still paying attention to this thread...

I can't mount using

sudo mount -t /dev/sda3 /media/sda3

anymore. I get the following message:

****@****:~$ sudo mount -t /dev/sda3 /media/sda3
[sudo] password for ****:
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .

Any and all help is appreciated!