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Old 08-12-2004, 01:21 PM   #1
sourav
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How can I access window partitions?


I use RedHat 9.0. Please give me some step by step instructions on how I can mount windows partitions.
Thanking you in advance.
 
Old 08-12-2004, 02:54 PM   #2
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first you need to make a folder somewhere
from a terminal
eg: mkdir /windows (as root if it's outside your home dir)
if you want to write to it then you'll need to chmod the new dir

then from the command line as root

mount /dev/hdxx -t vfat /windows

this applies only if the win partition is a fat partition
you also need to replace xx with the approapriate letter/number (probably a1)

when I was using redhat 9 i added this command to the end of /etc/rc.local and it worked fine
alternatively you can add a line to fstab
on my linux box the line for windows is as follows
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

if your win partition is ntfs then you'll need to modify the line accordingly
I cant help you with this bit as I dont let windows use ntfs
 
  


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