Hi. I created /mnt/win and mounted it successfully and had access to all my win98 files.

My questions is
If i rm the directory /mnt/win and all files under it will I in turn delete my win98 partition and all its files??
So that when I boot back into win98 everythings gone?

I don't want this to happen

thnaks newbie

Yes in deed

If you run rm -rf /mnt/win, it will delete all the files and directories, but not the partition.

You can mount the partition read-only. Like this:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win -o ro

You could put a line in your /etc/fstab file that would save you a lot of typing and have the partition mounted read-only. Like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat noauto,user,ro 0 0

Then all you have to type is mount /mnt/win.

Substitute the correct partition and file type for hda1 and vfat.

With that entry you will not delete everything, but the badside of that is you cannot add anything to it either. I would just make it a safe practice to NOT type rm -rf instead of denying myself write access to my fat partition. That or...

Make 2 partitions in Winbloze. One is for the system files (C:/Windows;C:/Program Files etc.) and the other is for the files you are going to be transferring back and forth. Files like Music, Movies, txt's whatever. Then you will add 2 lines in your fstab and one will be just as linuxcool has specified, the other will be rw (read/write).

Something like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/winC vfat noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/winD vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0

Where 1,2 and D,C are replaced with whatever you'd like.