How do I mount a Win Fat 32 or NTFS partition?

[robertpratt]

I ran across a how-to on the subject which told me to run a command showing what filesystems my distro understands. It does not understand/see NTFS or FAT32 partitions. Where do I go from here?

Robert

[ericrun]

Your kernel should have FAT32 drivers installed. When you mount the drive, use the -vfat option to declare the file system.

Since you're on the Debian board, I'll assume you have access to apt-get, so run

apt-get install libntfs5

and then mount the file system, and you can use the -ntfs flag to declare the file system. I haven't been able to write to my NTFS partition yet, but I can read from it. There are three other NTFS packages in Debian you might try, ntfs-modules, ntfstools, and ntfsprogs. You can find the package names for apt if you run

apt-cache search ntfs