mounting a windows partition?
 

my specs are:
1 x 20G hd
partition 1: windows xp(fat32) (dev/hda1??)
partition 2: RH linux (dev/hda2??)
partition 3: no os, only files(fat32) (dev/hda3??)

so the question is how can i mount the windows partition(s)?
will i be able to still browse the those mounted partitions in windows after doing this? or will i need to unmount them afterwards?

thx in advance for any help.:)

Make a directory /mnt/winXP:

mkdir /mnt/winXP

Type the following (probably need to be root):

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/winXP

That should let you access your XP partition.

To have it mount automatically at boot, edit /etc/fstab, adding the following line (again, probably as root):

/dev/hda1 /mnt/winXP vfat ro 0 0

Make sure to get each part of the above line in the right column. This will mount the partition as read only when you boot into linux.