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How to get linux to see windows partition on the same drive

Started by November 06, 2003 10:22 PM
10 comments, last by HTML 21 years, 3 months ago
(as root)

mkdir /mnt/windows
mount /dev/[insert device name here] /mnt/windows


AFAIK, you don''t usually need the -t filesystem argument; in my experience, it normally figures out the right filesystem to use.

To mount it at boot, add the following line to fstab:

/dev/[device name] /mnt/windows [fs] ro 0 0


[fs] will be vfat if it''s Windows 9x, or ntfs for Windows NT/2000/XP. If it''s an NTFS partition, then once mounted, it''ll probably only be accessible to root, so you may want to replace ro with ro,uid=[username] to let your regular user access it.
Because Fedora is based on Redhat, you might encounter a known limitation of filesystem mounting. In which case, you will want to go here, download and install the package. This one makes NTFS mounting a breeze.

Good luck!



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[edited by - MatrixCubed on November 7, 2003 7:18:50 AM]

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