Accessing Windoze Disks

cclavey · 04-21-2003, 03:10 PM

I know that to access a Windoze partition with Linux, you use edit the /etc/fstab, but is that the same for windoze disks? For example my /dev/hda is Windoze XP, and /dev/hdb is Slack. How do I get into /dev/hda?

Thanks!

david_ross · 04-21-2003, 03:13 PM

Yes Just mount /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2

The letter is the drive number and the number is the partition number. You will need to specify the type as NTFS or vfat depending on what XP is installed on.

cclavey · 04-21-2003, 03:16 PM

Ok, thanks, but how do I tell it Linux that it is NTFS?

david_ross · 04-21-2003, 03:20 PM

In column 3
eg

Code:

/dev/hda1     /mnt/win     ntfs     defaults     0 0

Mara · 04-21-2003, 03:22 PM

And make sure you have NTFS support compiled in your kernel (read-only, write is dangerous).

cclavey · 04-21-2003, 03:29 PM

Thanks, works like a charm!

cclavey · 04-21-2003, 03:33 PM

Actually, I take that back. I thought that I new how to make it so that all users could access it, but, I guess I dont *isgh*. Can you tell me how to do that?

Thanks

Update: Actually, when I try to mount it, I get this:

Code:

Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: mount point /mnt/win does not exis

Thanks!

sandy · 04-21-2003, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cclavey
Actually, I take that back. I thought that I new how to make it so that all users could access it, but, I guess I dont *isgh*. Can you tell me how to do that?

Replace that defaults by ro,umask=0222

Quote:

Code:

Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: mount point /mnt/win does not exis

I think you must create the directory /mnt/win first

AxeZ · 04-21-2003, 03:59 PM

Have you actualy created /mnt/win/ directory??

cclavey · 04-21-2003, 04:02 PM

Yup! Thanks, that fixed my problems!

cclavey · 04-21-2003, 04:04 PM

Yea, just mkdir /mnt/win