Mount Win98

AMH · 06-02-2001, 02:47 PM

I want to access files in my Win98 Partition. How do I do this? Can I mount the partition as another drive? I am running caldera on one machine and red hat on another so if there is a difference please let me know.

Thanks.

jharris · 06-02-2001, 02:50 PM

Sure! Just use

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdXX /someDir

where /dev/hdXX would be your Win partition (could be /dev/sdXX for that matter) and /someDir is an existing directory to use as a mount point. Your Win filesystem should now be available under /someDir. You probably don't need the '-t vfat' bit but it won't hurt.

This assumes you have support for the filesystem in the kernel, I'll be amazed if you don't.

HTH

Jamie...

AMH · 06-02-2001, 05:32 PM

Thanks for the quick response... gotta love forums! Hey, how do you check to see if you have support in the kernel and if you don't what do you do?

I appreciate it.

unSpawn · 06-02-2001, 05:49 PM

1. run "cat /proc/filesystems"
2. recompile kernel with support for it :-]

Sakura_Samurai · 06-04-2001, 11:06 PM

You could also edit your /etc/fstab file to automaticly mount it on start up. The line I personally use goes like this:

/dev/hda1 /win32 vfat users,defaults,ro 0 0

I hope this helps.

jharris · 06-05-2001, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sakura_Samurai
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/dev/hda1 /win32 vfat users,defaults,ro 0 0
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Shouldn't that be

Code:

/dev/hda1 /win32 vfat user,defaults,ro 0 0

Jamie...

Randy-RH7 · 06-05-2001, 01:42 PM

Why do you use ro? Does that mean read only? If so, I thought you would use that for CDROMs. Can't you also write to a dos/win partition?

jharris · 06-05-2001, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Randy-RH7
Why do you use ro? Does that mean read only? If so, I thought you would use that for CDROMs. Can't you also write to a dos/win partition?

You can read and write to VFAT partitions. I personally don't mount mine read only, I was just making a modification to the existing example. The reason the RO is used in the example is becuase its a user mountable partition and you probably don't want people to be able to overwrite/erase any-old thing on the partition.

Jamie...

Sakura_Samurai · 06-05-2001, 05:42 PM

I only keep programs (binaries) in my windows partition (files and the my documents folder are stored in an other), and due to the way windows programs are installed, I feel it is best to modify or delete from windows. Thus I have it mounted in linux as read only so that I can read it, and I won't screw up something if I try to write to it.

I use users (not user) because it allows anyone to unmount it, where user only allows the mounter to unmount. I would like to point out that there are only two accounts on my machine, root (me), and sakura (me), and I don't access the net from linux. So, I don't have to worry about securety as much as others.