Viewing windows partition in RH9
 

Hi, I was wondering is it possible to view windows files in Redhat9 in KDE. I've a 40gig hard drive with windows running 20gigs of it and linux on the other. I've read some posts on this but cant get it working. Thanks

hello...

1. First find out which windows partition you would want to use from linux using the command

fdisk -l

This will show you all partitions on your system...lets say your Windows C: is /dev/hda1

2. Create a mount point (i.e a new directory) where this windows partition will be mounted (attached)

mkdir /mnt/windows

3. now mount the filesystem

(a) From the command line, everytime you can mount the windows partition like this:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

OR

(b) If you want your windows partition to be mounted automatically everytime you log on, then open the file /etc/fstab in the vi editor..

vi /etc/fstab

In this file, put the following entries

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0

Similarly, you may mount the other windows drives by following the above steps..

Hope that helps..

Regards,

amit

Hey, thanks so much. Now i can transfer the music to windows to record to my netMD without putting em on cdrw. The term said that fdisk command was unknown though the drive still mounts by skipping that step. Thanks again.