Hi,

I have installed Linux9 and windows XP. Now I want to mount the windows drives on linux so i can see the windows drives on linux.

So anyone can tell me how i mount the windows on linux.


Thanx in Advance

Ashish

A simple 'man mount' should give you all the information you need. Last time I checked though, NTFS support was pretty flakey, beware.

If you don't want to mount it each time, you are best to alter a line in your /etc/fstab

Mine looks something like this:

bash-3.00# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dorax ntfs defaults,umask=002,user 1 0#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto,users 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,uses 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.SMyZ+shmuHA


In this case /dev/hda1 is an ntfs partition. My 'old' hd is mounted each time at startup.

Hope that helps you

If you'd like them to be mounted when you boot the machine, then you need to edit /etc/fstab as follows:
NB: You don't add what is in bold above.

You will have to replace the devices in my entry (/dev/sda1 for example) with your devices; and you will have to replace the mount points in my entry (/WinXP for example) with your mount points. You will also need to make these mount points, by issuing as root "mkdir /WinXP" for example, though you can name the mount point whatever you desire.

There is no Linux distribution called "Linux 9" so we don't really know what system you're running. Some of them have GUI (graphical user interface) tools to do this job, others such as Slackware don't. All Linux distros allow you to do work via CLI (command line interface).