How Do I Get To My Windows Files From Linux?

AFI_Flame · 05-29-2004, 02:12 AM

They're on 2 hard drives... my windows partition is on an 80GB primary drive and the linux partition is on a 40GB slave drive. My windows partition is NTFS. How do I do this?

herbc · 05-29-2004, 07:09 AM

mkdir /mnt/windows
mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs -o ro /mnt/windows

May need to be root. See man mount and man fstab.

drigz · 05-29-2004, 08:32 AM

u have to have a kernel with ntfs support. if not, u can look at:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

AFI_Flame · 05-30-2004, 01:44 PM

well im running 2.4.26 would that have it?

iotc247 · 05-30-2004, 01:51 PM

No theres really no point as you cant change file names or put new files in it or anything i think you can only get files from it... well i thought so cause thats about all i can do.. Really just compile a kernel with fat support and create a fat partition.. Then put the files on there so both systems can read and write to it and copy and paste to it...

AFI_Flame · 05-30-2004, 01:56 PM

well i don't need to write files... really all i wanna do is get my mp3s from my windows xp partition lol

iotc247 · 05-30-2004, 01:57 PM

Then compile a 2.6 kernel with ntfs and ntfs write support... Not sure if you need write or not but just to be safe..

AFI_Flame · 05-30-2004, 02:21 PM

ok well it worked but only root can get in to it... how do i change the permissions?

drigz · 05-30-2004, 02:38 PM

in fstab, add the umask=000 option i think

EThitop · 05-30-2004, 02:53 PM

Here's how I first did it (with a 2.4.# kernel from Slackware 9.1).. I'd create the folder /home/Mount and then in the console I'd type:
mount /dev/hde1 /home/Mount -o loop

That worked fine, I was able to retrieve my MP3's, etc...

AFI_Flame · 05-30-2004, 03:26 PM

not working

i added it to fstab and now it automatically mounts at start up which is good but still only root can access it

AxelFendersson · 05-31-2004, 05:16 AM

Here's the line from my fstab:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/winroot ntfs ro,umask=0 1 0

I can access it fine as a normal user.

AFI_Flame · 06-01-2004, 04:16 PM

yay i got it

the umask=000 did work... i was just typing it in wrong in fstab