Re: Mounting "Windows"

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:26:41 GMT

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:58:46 +0100, Gizmo wrote:

> hi there,
> can anyone tell me how i can mount "ntfs" and "fat32" partitions? i'd
> like to have access on my windows-drives when i'm using LINUX (RedHat9)

First, Red Hat does not support mounting of NTFS partition(s) 'out of the
box' visit; http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

Then as root you can mount either the NTFS or vfat(FAT32) partition(s)
with mount, example; mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows_c

Assuming that the mountpoint(/mnt/windows_c) does exist, if not then
create it(as root); mkdir /mnt/windows

By reading both 'man mount' and 'man fstab' you can add the partitions
automatically when you boot into Linux, /etc/fstab examples;

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows_c vfat auto,users,rw,umask=022 0 0

/dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs ntfs auto,users,ro,umask=022 0 0

Modify the above examples to match your actual system requirements and
preferences. (hint: fdisk -l /dev/hda)

Notice that the NTFS partition example is mounted read only, it's still a
bit of a problem writing to NTFS partitions safely using native Linux
kernel NTFS support. 

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