Re: Accessing windoze partitions in Linux
From: William H. Jones II (whjones_at_hawaii.rr.com)
Date: 12/26/04
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Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 00:53:22 GMT
You could just Google for the Linux NTFS project. There are no
directions for enabling write permissions, but with a single RPM and a
couple of commands, you can set up the NTFS partitions for read access
by anyone. As far as I understand, writing to an NTFS partition is
still a bit problematic.
William Jones
Nunna Yarbiz wrote:
> I've noticed that every now and then sombody askes how to access the win
> partitions while using Linux.
>
> This is the little trick I came up with and now use during every setup
> to make them visible.
> I don't know if it will make ntfs partitions visible. I've only used it
> on fat32.
> If sombody else tries this and ntfs partitions do become visible, I'd be
> gratefull for the feedback.
>
> Okay, here goes.....
> Windoze appears to require that it be installed on the first partition
> of the hard drive. .... (A lame idea if ever there was one. ... Of
> course it can be moved after it has been installed using programs like
> PQmagic. In this instance there is no particular need so I won't go into
> that any further).
>
> Lets say you have two win partitions .... C: & D: .... and the rest of
> your drive is for Linux.
> So a simplified layout from the start of your drive might look like
> this......
> C: ---> D: ---> /root partition ---> /swap partition
>
> When installing linux and you get to the graphical hard disk partitioner
> where you are shown all the existing partitions including those for
> windoze.
> To setup Linux you create the root and swap as you would normaly using /
> to indicate the root partition and /swap for the swap partition.
> Then you mark them both to be formatted before the OS install.
>
> Before you proceed to the formatting, you need to indicate the mount
> point for the two windoze partitions.
> The mount point "hack" is a mixture of both Unix and Dos commands.
> So the mount point for C: drive will become /C:\
> Do the same for any other win partitions too .... D: becomes /D:\ etc.
> Be sure to mark them NOT for format and then continue with the rest of
> the Linux installation.
>
> It looks a bit weird but has worked for me using various versions of Red
> Hat and windoze.
> When I'm the root user I can see the C & D partitions as folders
> included in the root directory where I can easily drag n drop files back
> and forth between both Linux & windoze eggs pee.
> These folders/partitions and their contents are visible to any user but
> moving files is a problem. So you'll need to be the root for full
> control over the now visible partitions.
>
> This should work for other distros too ..... Good luck.
>
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