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Old 05-06-2004, 08:19 AM   #1
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i'm just wondering if it's safe to access my windows partition in linux? i have mounted my hdb so i can access my mp3s and videos.
 
Old 05-06-2004, 09:53 AM   #2
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no worries, just dont delete anything

I assume you have it mounted as NTFS or fat.
 
Old 05-07-2004, 06:22 AM   #3
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yup, did mount it as fat...
 
Old 05-07-2004, 09:21 PM   #4
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Mounting a windows partition is no problem. Trying to write to an ntfs partition is sort of a different story, you may come across some problems there. Writing to fat however should pose no problems.
 
  


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