how to use a Windows XP file on RHEL 4 ??? both the OS r installed in same HardDisk.

visitashu · 01-12-2007, 04:23 AM

hi fans....
i hv 1 prob in sharing Windows file in my linux OS..
i hv a file say "abc.xyz" in C:/ drive of Windows & i want to use the same file when m running fedora/RHEL 4....

my system is dual booted..
now loggin as a root how shall i do tat ?
i guess i hv to change something in /etc/fstab file right???

HOW SHALL I PROCEED ???

plz help me

Lenard · 01-12-2007, 07:13 AM

RHEL does not support the NTFS filesystem out of the box so visit;

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

If you want read/write access then you need to install a new custom kernel (from kernel.org the 2.6.19.2 source) and configure support for FUSE in the kernel and use the fuse and ntfs-3g source rpm packages.

Or create a FAT32 partition to share data.

Sample /etc/fstab entry for read only ntfs access;

Code:

/dev/hda1    /mnt/WindowsXP    ntfs   noauto,umask=0,users,ro 0 0

For the details see; man fstab (and) man mount