accessing my windows hard drive

[Christophe Le Guern]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:46:37 -0500
Terry Polzin <fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 09:30, Christophe Le Guern wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:24:00 -0600
> >
> > Russ Edwards <redwards at scs.sk.ca> wrote:
> > > I have my laptop dual booting.  For my work I need Windows about 1% of
> > > the time.  How can I dump some files onto my windows partition so that I
> > > can back them up?
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > you can mount the windows filesystem
> >
> > as root:
> > # mkdir /mnt/windows/
> > # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/
> >
> > as long as /dev/hda1 is your windows partition of course
> > you can also put this in /etc/fstab later
> >
> > christophe
> >
> >
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> you may want to use -t vfat rather than msdos if you want to use long  file 
> names that are outside the 7/3 dos convention.

thanks for the tip