mounting windows partition

**tim** · 01-10-2003

ok you prob heard this question 9 million times,

but i got a windows partition how do i mount it?

or better still have an icon on my desktop that will lead to the drive.

its the first partition on the drive, thanx!

**Dolda2000** · 01-10-2003

Just "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win" to mount it on /mnt/win, but you can of course change the last one to wherever you want. You might want to consider adding it to /etc/fstab, though. See fstab(5) for more info.

**tim** · 01-10-2003

thank you very much!

is it poss to make it a link on the desktop? i know it is, or is it a bit harder?

or again i know its poss, how do i let linux mount it on start up?

i dont beleive this, couple years ago i knew how to do this, oh how windows has "cooled" me down...

**Dolda2000** · 01-10-2003

It was for boot time mounting that you should consider /etc/fstab. When you have done so, I think nautilus automatically creates a desktop link.

**tim** · 01-10-2003

ok cheers thanx!

**tim** · 01-12-2003

ok problem!

taken me ages to get back to here

after creating the "win" folder in /mnt/

i then went and did what you said however this came up:

[root@localhost root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
or too many mounted file systems

so i thought, im using XP it uses NTFS not fat32 but then this came up:

[root@localhost root]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

hmmm....please help!

**Dolda2000** · 01-12-2003

Yes, ntfs still has EXPERIMENTAL status in the kernel tree, and write support has DANGEROUS status. Unless you're trying to fix the driver, you should never mount a ntfs partition writable.
I would imagine that some distros ship without the ntfs driver at all. You'll have to build it yourself from the kernel sources if that's the case.
The reason why NTFS is so poorly supported in linux is that there is no tech papers on it, so everything has to be reverse-engineered. Microsoft is keeping it a secret for some very good reason.

**tim** · 01-13-2003

ok!

well cheers for that anyway!

**genlee** · 01-13-2003

tim, try modprobe ntfs. You need to load the kernel module before you can mount it. As said before, don't attempt to write to the drive. I have had no problems reading from ntfs though.

**tim** · 01-13-2003

all i want to do is to read to "grab" things of the drive i wont write to it, cos i just write to the linux side.

where do i get this module + is it easy to install or do i have recompile the kernel...

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