How to gain access to second Linux partition

Question

Hi,
Before I start, I'd just like to say how impressed I am with Arch! I've only been using it for a week now, a bit less in fact, but it's already wowing me enough to make me think about changing my loyalties from Debian to Arch - something I thought would be impossible even a few weeks back!
Anyway, my problem is, should be a simple one this, how to access my Arch partition from Debian and vice versa. In Debian, I can see the Arch partition in Dolphin, but when I click on it I get a permission denied message. When I try to mount this device (in Dolphin not with the command line) I get the same message. Now, in the bad old days when I shared my Linux computer with Windows, I was able to access my FAT32 partition by simply going into /media, finding the partition (let's say hda2) and chmod-ing it, ie chmod 0777 /media/hda2. I wanted to see if this would work with my Arch partition, but I don't even see it in /media/ Instead I went into /dev and tried changing permission there, but to no avail. I've tried tinkering around with the fstab file, but I'm very much an amateur at this, and now I don't know what to try. Here is the result of fdisk -l (hda1 is Debian):
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 7047 56604996 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9447 9729 2273197+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 7048 9446 19269967+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 9447 9729 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris
And here is the fstab file (I have myself entered the line for hda3):
debian:/home/james# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults, errors=remount-ro 0 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 vfat rw,user,users,noauto,noatime,noauto 1 2
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks a lot in advance.

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply toliman. I've tried doing what you suggested but it still doesn't work. Here is my new fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 /media/arch ext3 defaults, errors=remount-ro 0 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 vfat rw,user,users,noauto,noatime,noauto 1 2
And here is the result of ls -l /media:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-14 16:43 arch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-06-07 17:13 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-07 17:13 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-07 17:13 cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-06-07 17:13 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-06-07 17:13 floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-03 14:17 IOMEGA_HDD
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-10 14:56 sda1
drwxrwxrwx 2 root cdrom 4096 2007-12-15 20:44 usb0
Still the same issues: pemissions denied when I try to open or mount hda/3 with dolphin. When I try to mount as root using the command line I get:
debian:/home/james# mount /dev/hda3
[mntent]: line 6 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Thanks once again.