hello, what is the command to mount the windows partition, so i can be able to view the contents all the time(windows contents) from a shell?

i remember that it is something like

mount /dev/hdc1 mnt/windows

help please!!

Well if you want it mounted everytime you boot you'll wanna put the line in your fstab which is located in the /etc directory. It looks like you know which hdx it is so just put the line into the file. For example:
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows vfat [options]

if you just want to use mount, type: mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows That should work in lieu of any options of the mount command you want. Type man mount and read the help, it's nice for explaining exactly what you may or may not want to do. It may be easier also to mount your windows in the root directory for easier access like /dev/hdc1 /win or something easy to get to. It doesn't have to be in mnt. The directory does though, so make sure that's there.

Sorry, I mean the directory wherever you put it like /win. I didn't mean that the dir has to be in mnt.

mount -t smbfs -o username=windowsUser,password=windowsPassword //Compname/Sharename /dev/mountpoint


for this to work you will have to share the dir in the windows and use the username and password if required as given. To have it automounted on boot you will have to add a new line to the etc/fstab

//Compname/Sharename /dev/mountpoint smbfs username=windowsUser,password=password,user

this should work as it is working for me.. :-)

rules..