Hello everyone!
I have windows XP in one hard drive and Suse Linux on another hard drive. I want to know howto I access the file on the windows hard drive on Suse Linux. I would like it to be automatically mount after reboot.

thank you

It's pretty easy to add a Windows drive to your /etc/fstab file. A line like this would do the trick:

/dev/hdXX /windows/mountpoint ntfs ro 1 0

You do need to replace /dev/hdXX with the actual device of your Windows partition and replace /windows/mountpoint with the actualy path you want Windows to be mounted to. Note that this will give you read-only access to the Windows partition. Writing to a NTFS drive is like playing with dynamite. Sooner or later it is going to go seriously wrong. If Linux needs to be able to write to the files, you're much better off setting up a FAT32 partition and sharing between Linux and Windows.

If your windoze partitions are fat32, you can mount read and write them. If they are ntfs file system, you can mount and read only the files.

To mount the windoze drive, you need to edit the /etc/fstab file, and add an entry for each drive to mount. You need to make a mount point, use the mkdir command to do this. Once these things are done, on each boot the system should mount the file systems. Hare is a sample of my entries for fat32 file system.

Note the field vfat. This is the file system type. You need to set that for what ever file system you are trying to mount.

As you add a line, no need to boot. Just use a mount command from the command line. If you have things set up correctly, the file system will be mounted, and you can use acces the files immediatley.

Post back if you need more guidance.

It's probably already mounted :?
Type mount to see what's mounted.

Hi to all,

Try to use Captive..a great s/w for reading/writing to NTFS partitions..the support for NTFS in Linux kernel is pretty limited..the writes o NTFS are not that gud..

Captive, however, requires at least a 2.6.14 kernel.

For vfat partitions, you can just modify fstab as stated above and mount your windows partition.

Warm regards,
Visham

My pardon;
How about this :

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

Seems wonderfull.

That's for accessing Linux partitions under Windows and the OP wanted the opposite..

Just offering accesories.

I imagine seeing in single drive is easy.
I also want to see linux partition recently but from window LAN.