Accessing Windows Partition

Atroxic · 01-27-2002, 10:57 AM

How do I access files from my windows partition while on Linux?

-Atroxic

trickykid · 01-27-2002, 11:07 AM

you can mount the partition with the mount command...

something like this: mount -t filesystem-type /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

Atroxic · 01-27-2002, 11:30 AM

How do I know what to put for /mnt/windows?
The command given keeps telling me /mnt/windows doesn't exist. Is there a way I can find out what to put there?

-Atroxic

trickykid · 01-27-2002, 11:42 AM

most likely you don't have a directory, you can create a windows directory with the mkdir command.. but take notice that when i said /dev/hda1 the hda1 can differ on your setup.. depending on where your partition setup for your windows is at... it could be hda2 or whatever... but if its the first partition on your first ide drive.. it should be hda1

Atroxic · 01-27-2002, 01:14 PM

Now I'm getting the error that the kernal doesn't support FAT or FAT32...
HOw can I fix that?

trickykid · 01-27-2002, 01:23 PM

are you typing fat or fat32 as the type of filesystem ?? if so you want to try vfat as the type to mount. if that doesn't work with same error, you can recompile your kernel to support fat.

what distro are you using ? most come already to support vfat for windows.

Atroxic · 01-27-2002, 01:31 PM

Thanks, it worked

trickykid · 01-27-2002, 01:33 PM

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Originally posted by Atroxic
Thanks, it worked

No Problem, Anytime.