How to access external partition

[clemencyworld1]

I installed spacefm in the junest environment but i could not access my data partition from it. I tried unmounting the partition and mounting it inside junest but no success. The partition is actually mounted but appears empty in junest but from the home folder it shows everything. I there a special way to mount external partition under junest or is it not possible.

Thanks

[fsquillace]

Where is the directory located. Can you show me the command you run and the error?

[clemencyworld1]

Sorry, I moved on to Antix Linux after encountering many boot fails with Arch Linux. I will see if junest can run on Debian based Antix and try again.

Sorry for long silence. This project inzpirez me

[clemencyworld1]

Ok. So i mounted my Data partition located in /dev/sda5 on /media/Data while my root partition is /dev.sda1. I could access the mounted partition in the host system but in junest it says it does not exist. In fact, there is no /media folder listed in junest folder tree.

Apparently, junest can only access the home folder so i made a link of the partition to my home folder, While the linked folder shows in commandline; it doesn't show in the file manager. Trying to cd into the linked folder returns "No such file or directory".

I ran "sudo fdisk -l " in junest and got:

$ sudo fdisk -l
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram0: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram1: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram2: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram3: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram4: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram5: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram6: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram7: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram8: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram9: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram10: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram11: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram12: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram13: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram14: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/ram15: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Permission denied

[fsquillace]

For that you'd need to explictly tell junest to bind that directory. By default only a subset of directory are bind to a JuNest session.
The bind depends on which mode (backend program) you are using. If you are using the default one (ns and not proot) then you can run:

junest -b "--bind /media/Data /home/myuser/Data"

To see the options available for the ns (which uses bwrap):

junest -b "--help"

For proot backend:

junest proot -b "--help"