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It would be very beneficial to you to place your distro in your user cp (at the top of page). This will display it under your username and really help us out a lot when answering your questions.
For example:
RH doesn't include NTFS support by default and requires a bit of work to get it in there (from the page listed in an above post).
Hello Skyline:
I tried the command:
mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda2 /mnt/yourname
1)I succeeded in loading ntfs files in linux. But if I logout and try to access the files the next time I login,I am unable to do so.Is it possible to make linux permanently detect the ntfs files .
2) Few of my windows partitions have files in both ntfs and fat32 formats. So when I mount the drive as ntfs,I am unable to access the fat32 files; and vice versa.
Is it possible to make linux detect both file systems simultaneously from the same partition.
Thanking you,
Mons....
Mons - I've been away for a couple of days climbing the Pike of Blisco in the Lake district in England.
Mons - Anyway - the idea is to put an entry in your Filesystem tablefile otherwise known as /ect/fstab - its just a configuration file in your /etc directory.
Putting an entry in here will enable your NTFS partition to be mounted on boot.
So - for example - if your NTFS partition is /dev/hda2 and your mount point is /mnt/mons - then the entry would be
/dev/hda2 /mnt/mons ntfs ro,auto, 1 1
remember to put this line at the bottom of your /ect/fstab file
Just use a text editor to open it up and remmeber to save it.
Regards a Shared Data partition - the best way of doing it is to format a partition with FAT32 - then both XP/2K and Linux can both read/write to and from this partition.
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