Accessing my Ubuntu partition

[Spyder_Snyper]

So I installed Ubuntu on my PC here. Did some stuff (don't ask me what, I have NO idea), and killed the MBR. Somehow, I wound up installing Kubuntu in the free space. Sadly, Grub can't seem to load the existing Ubuntu installation, I tried.

But in any case, after really mucking things up good, I still need to access some info on that Ubuntu partition. So I tried mounting it by adding this line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/Ubuntu_Drive ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0

I also truied mounting it using ext3 FS as well. But when I browse to the /mnt folder, it's always empty.

So... Am I allowed to mount anything in the /mnt folder?

And whether or not I can mount there, how can I access the data that is only found on /dev/hda1?

It's probably something really simple that I'm missing too...

[penguin.ch]

Re: Accessing my Ubuntu partition

sudo mkdir /mnt/hda2
sudo mount -v -o ro /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
cd /mnt/hda2; ls

should make the file system available (read-only).

[Spyder_Snyper]

Re: Accessing my Ubuntu partition

Yup... appears to have worked... But I' still having a fairly big issue.

See, what I was still able to use Ubuntu, I put some files on the Desktop, which is *REALLY* what I'm trying to access. Now when I search for files and folders on the newly mounted drive, they're nowhere to be found.

So... Are the files not found because they aren't there (I know that they at least WERE there, I had accessed them and whatnot before breaking Ubuntu)? Or is it that because the files were in the Desktop folder and thus being private-ish files, that I can'
t see them because of this...

[penguin.ch]

Re: Accessing my Ubuntu partition

What about /mnt/hda2/home/[username]/Desktop ...?

[Spyder_Snyper]

Re: Accessing my Ubuntu partition

the file/folder doesn't exist...

Or at least according to the error code.

and I KNOW that the folder was there and should be good to go.

Could this maybe have something to do with permissions and the way Ubuntu is set up like that

When I go to /mnt/hda2/home the folder is empty... Any ideas?