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Discs option missing from system folder

I have just installed Ubuntu on my laptop and have dual boot with windows xp. I want to access my xp partitions (fat32 filesystems) from Ubuntu but following the help file, I don't have a Discs option. How can I find my partitions?

Thanks in advance

Jen

They should be mounting in your /media directory.

Open a terminal and type

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cat /etc/fstab

Are they listed?

Thanks, I tried that and all it found was my linux partitions and cd drive. Is there anything else I can try?

All help appreciated

Jen

Assuming grub allows you to boot into windows, then hopefully it's just a matter of adding your xp partitions to fstab and creating mount points for them.

Run this command in a terminal:

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sudo fdisk -l

Find you windows partitions and add an entry for each one to your fstab file.

First, backup fstab:

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sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup

Then,

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gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add a line for each one at the end like this (replace 'hda1' with your partition):

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/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0

Now create mount points for each one like this:

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sudo mkdir /media/hda1

Then

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sudo mount -a

They should mount. Now reboot to make sure they automount on startup.

Note: the 'disks' utility has for some reason been dropped in edgy. You can read about it here.

That's wonderful, thank you so much. I can now view both my windows partitions.
I only installed Ubuntu yesterday and it is my first experience with Linux so it is great to have such easy to follow help. Now all I need is to work out how to install the driver I've downloaded and I can get my wireless internet working.

Jen