The following is my dream... I installed Red Hat Linux and Windows XP pro. In windows, I have 3 logical partitions ("drives"): C,M, and V. M is my music and V is videos,etc. I want to be able to mount M and V into Linux somehow so I can listen to my tunes and whatnot l33t style. Is this an unreasonably difficult task? Will my dream ever come true? Is sharing between Linux and Windows such a difficult task? Can they not live in harmony and share?
By the way, all the aforementioned is on one 120GB hard drive. Thanks.
Windoze to Linux logical partition sharing [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Re: Windoze to Linux logical partition sharing [Archive] - ForumsHQ
not hard at all... make sure you have ntfs support compiled into the kernel and it mounts regularly.. (man mount)
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crazyA2
Re: Windoze to Linux logical partition sharing [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Hmm someone's done the ntfs support now. I have them as FAT32. Any idea how one would determine the type, device, and dir arguments for the mount command? Thanks a lot.
Re: Windoze to Linux logical partition sharing [Archive] - ForumsHQ
I believe mount w/o specifying type will try to identify it., again "man mount" will tell you all that you need to know.
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crazyA2
Re: Windoze to Linux logical partition sharing [Archive] - ForumsHQ
Just thought I'd post a final clarification in case anyone wonders about this later on...
1) Figure out the identifier for the partitions (eg: /dev/hda7). On the redhat/fedora gui I used system tools -> hardware browser then looked under hard drives. Forgot how to do it with the console though.
2) Create a directory for the partition. I made mine /mnt/Windoze0.
3) Log in as superuser/root (su at prompt).
4) To mount: mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/Windoze0
That's the t flag for filesystem type with vfat (fat32,fat16,etc) as the filesystem type to mount.
5) Optional: add a line to /etc/fstab like this:
/dev/hda7 /mnt/windoze2 vfat defaults 0 0
That makes it so the os mounts the partition on startup so you don't have to do it yourself every time.
Props to Orielly's "Running Linux" for a well-written book :)
1) Figure out the identifier for the partitions (eg: /dev/hda7). On the redhat/fedora gui I used system tools -> hardware browser then looked under hard drives. Forgot how to do it with the console though.
2) Create a directory for the partition. I made mine /mnt/Windoze0.
3) Log in as superuser/root (su at prompt).
4) To mount: mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/Windoze0
That's the t flag for filesystem type with vfat (fat32,fat16,etc) as the filesystem type to mount.
5) Optional: add a line to /etc/fstab like this:
/dev/hda7 /mnt/windoze2 vfat defaults 0 0
That makes it so the os mounts the partition on startup so you don't have to do it yourself every time.
Props to Orielly's "Running Linux" for a well-written book :)