Hi,

You can try the following :- 1) Type fdisk -l (as a super user) 2) Note down the hda partition of your windows ( usually it is hda1 if you are having dual boot with windows88 or any other os ) 3) Make a directory in the /mnt directory named windows (or any other name you like) with the command mkdir. 4) Then give the command mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/windows where hdax stands for the partition number ie hda1 , hda2 etc and /windows is the directory you have made in the /mnt directory

This should work fine. If you want the windows partition to be mounted always when you boot to linux , you would have to make an entry in the /etc/fstab file.Type man fstab for more information regarding the same.

Bye.

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ketan shah wrote:

hi,

how to access files stored in windows operating sysytem from linux. i have tried mount -t vfat/dev/hda1/mnt but then where to go,how to see files i don't know because there is no hda1 directory and in /mnt only floopy and cdrom is there.

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On Apr 9, 2002 at 14:42, Bhargav Bhatt wrote:

I tried making my linux kernel mount my FAT32 windows partition at startup by making an entry into /etc/fstab using linuxconf and it gave

Warning: FAT32 file system is not fully supported yet.

I am using Linux kerner 2.4.7 which came bundled with my Red Hat 7.2. I

Give output of uname -a

hate mounting the partition everytime and would appreciate if someone could tell me how to mount it while booting.

Workaround for now: Put the manual mount command at the end of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. (Note the clever avoidance of terminating a pathname with a non-data period.)

Also, does anyone know if the newer kernels support fat32 and ntfs(that would be gr8!)?

Yes. (What's "gr8"?)

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:53:49AM -0700, ketan shah wrote:

how to access files stored in windows operating sysytem from linux. i have tried mount -t vfat/dev/hda1/mnt

Hey U are eating spaces. Try,

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt

If your windows partition is /dev/hda1.