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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.

not hard at all... make sure you have ntfs support compiled into the kernel and it mounts regularly.. (man mount)

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.

I believe mount w/o specifying type will try to identify it., again "man mount" will tell you all that you need to know.

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 :)