Hi!
On my laptop I use ubuntu over a year and there was no problem to put Windows partition in '/windows' directory in '/' (if cannot be understand - the windows folders like "windows", "Documents and settings" are when I go in '/windows'). It's now 10.4 and it is still in that way. But now, in Desktop Ubuntu 10.4 on other computer, I came across some difficulties of doing that. Windows partition is presented as mounted in '/media'.
So can I do it like the laptop - not as removable disk, but as a part of the whole system and the ntfs format disk be presented as '/windows'?

Thanks !

1. Identify the underlining device associated to your windows disk/partition.
2. Edit /etc/fstab by adding an entry for your windows disk/partition.

That should be it. If in need for further clarification try:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mo...dowsPartitions
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susentfs.html#permanent

Hope it does the trick for you.

You can have a partition mounted wherever you like and called what you like.

First you need to make an empty directory with the name you want in the place you want.
sudo mkdir /windows

You might also need to change the protection settings of that empty directory (I'm unsure of some details).

Then umount the partition if it was mounted elsewhere.

Then edit /etc/fstab to change where the partition will be mounted.

Then mount the partition.


The Ubuntu installer saw a pre existing Windows partition and set up the empty directory and the line in /etc/fstab to mount that partition in some place that version of the installer thought convenient. But you don't need to keep its choice.

then:
Something like that, then edit your /etc/fstab. I'm not sure how that should be done in Ubuntu.

****! Beaten by a faster typer again!

Thanks a lot!
It works, but maybe, I am not doing something right in /etc/fstab, because eache time I reboot, it unmounts again. Here's what's written there:
# /windows was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=25313A1926FCA7C0 /windows ntfs defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022 0 0

That's not a complete UUID.

To see the mapping of UUIDs to device nodes, do this:

Thanks a lot everyone for the help !
It wouldn't work, because UUID has nothing in common with the listed one with the command of pixellany.
Now it's working right !
Thanks!