Im currently dual booting Red Hat 9 and Windows XP, Is there anyway that I can access /dev/hda1 (my windows partition) in linux so I can access my files in windows while i'm in linux???

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Hi guys, I found how to automount the drive of windows in order to use
files from Window$ partition.

Let's say you have windows on your C Drive partition, this should be
something like /dev/hda 1in Linux. Usually you had to open a terminal
and type:

su

mount -t vfat /dev/hda 1/mnt/WinXP

assuming you already have a folder named WinXP under yout /mnt folder.
The drive will not be automounted the next time you reboot your machine.
Thus you have to automount it. Simply you can do this:
first open the file /etc/fstab in your favorite text editor, for
example:

gedit /etc/fstab

you will see a list of mounts, just add the following line (REMEMBER TO
CHANGE THE NAMES ACCORDING TO YOUR SETTINGS) to that file

/dev/hda 1/mnt/WinXP vfat iocharset=iso8859-1

If it didn't mount it directly, then press the CTRL+ALT+Backspace to
restart the X Session and then login back again and you should find it
mounted automatically for you

Happy Linuxing

You'll need to go here if you're using RedHat and an NTFS partition of XP. NTFS support was compiled into the kernel but the module was left out for legal reasons. I assumce since RedHat 8.0 was missing the module, 9.0 is missing it too.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

Good Luck.

BTW. It's safe to mount NTFS as read only. Read/write can be a very, very, very bad thing.

ei, thanx for d info Anmar

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Anmar


gedit /etc/fstab

you will see a list of mounts, just add the following line (REMEMBER TO
CHANGE THE NAMES ACCORDING TO YOUR SETTINGS) to that file

/dev/hda 1/mnt/WinXP vfat iocharset=iso8859-1


I tried this but theres an error on startup saying something like "vfat does not exist" how can i fix this problem?? I am able to mount though when i type:
su
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp
cd mnt/winxp
ls

can anyone tell me whats the problem or what i'm dong wrong??

you have to know which partition you are mounting and mount point "folder" has to be existing.

when I mount windowz C drive I do this :

mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /dosc

I know, I already have a mnt folder "winxp", i can mount my drive c partition its just that i'm having problems when i'm trying to automount it

Ok.. I think you're having problems because you're not using FAT32 on your XP partition. You're probably using NTFS. The only way you would be using FAT32, hence vfat, is if you reinstalled and reformatted your PC to use FAT32. The link I posted above has step by step instructions on how to automount /dev/hd(windows) when booting Red Hat 9.0.

Your mount command should probably look something like this.

mount -t ntfs /dev/hd(windows)

Oops... never mind... I just read your above post and since you can mount using -t vfat I guess you are FAT32. Here is my /etc/fstab line that autmounts my windows drive. I'm also FAT32.

/dev/hda(windows) /mnt/windows vfat rw,nouser,auto,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

Forgot to say welcome jt1020