First of all i want to say that i have really tried to do it myself...used the search button alot but im a bloody newbie and as it seems need an detailed advise.
my HD setup.
[ c:] Windows
[d:] Windows
[e:] Windows.
as you can see i have 3 Windows partiotions and want to mount them in RED HAT.

my fstab looks like the following

"
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
"
hmmm what do i have to do to add them in here ??
THX for the help

First of all you have to determine what type of filesystems you have under windows. Is it NTFS or FAT32? The simplest way to find this out is to open a terminal(console) in RedHat under System tools --> Terminal.

Once there type:

su
(this will change you into root user and will prompt for a root password)

Then what you have to do is see what partitions you have. Just type:

/sbin/fdisk -l
(this will produce something like /dev/hda1 ............ NTFS or W95 FAT32.... or something, then /dev/hda2 ...........NTFS or W95 FAT32 or Linux...)

What you have to look for is the partitions which are type NTFS or W95 FAT32, because these are the windows partitions. As you say there are three, there must be three

Look at the devices they are on and remember them and the filesystem types associated with them. For example, if a line says /dev/hda1 ........ NTFS, this is what you must remember /dev/hda1 (the device the partition is on) and NTFS (filesystem type).

And we come to the mounting of the partitions. Depending on what RedHat you have, you might or might not have NTFS support. If you have RH9 then you don't have NTFS support, thus you can't mount or use the NTFS partitions for now. If this is the case, visit

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html

and please read through the page as it will explain to you in easy steps how to mount NTFS partition and how to configure your fstab to automount it at startup. So if you have NTFS, my help ends here, as it is unneeded, because you will get all the help on that page.

In the other case, if you have W95 FAT32 partitions, you are one step away from using your windows partitions. Remember the device names and filesystem types?

You will need them here. Still in a terminal logged in as root:

mkdir /windows1
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /windows

This command will mount the FAT32 partition from /dev/hda1(which means harddisk 1, partition 1(which is C: if you installed windows on a formatted harddisk)) in the directory windows1 created with the previous command mkdir. Now you are able to see the files on that partition. just open konqueror, navigate to / and from there to /windows1 and you will see the file structures of the windows partition. REMEMBER, this works only for FAT32 or if you have Fedora 1 or 2, NOT IN RH9 by default.

Good luck! Peace!

GREAT !!!!
THX for the advise!
just for info as i have forget to write it =>
i use RED HAT 9 and all partitions are in NTFS

After all i have mounted my partitions!!!!
WOW
by now i have another question.
If i want to umount Win it says:
umount: /mnt/windows: device is busy

i use the commands :
umount /mnt/windows
umount /dev/hda1



in window manager (nautilus) i can not enter windows as i nedd root acess.
i knows i can do it through bash but is there a way to do it via window manager??

you should come out of the root of the mounted partition before unmounting it.
when you are typing the unmount command check if you are in the mounted partition.
if yes then change directory to out of the partition and then umount

JESUS that simple!!
THX
what aboz the second question?

You need to mount it for other users too. Just read the info on the link I provided!

Well i think i should read everythink bevor posting here
THX