Problem in mounting windows partition

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 11:15, pinaki at ics.uci.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a new user of FC2. I have windows XP in two partitions (C: as NTFS
> and D: as FAT32) and Linux in the other. I am trying to access the Windows
> partitions from Linux, but have not been successful.
> 
> First I tried to mount the FAT32 partition. I added the following line to
> /etc/fstab after logging in as root:
> /dev/hda2 /mnt/win vfat rw,auto,user,exec,async 0 0
> When I tried mounting this, I got the following error message-
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many
> mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partiotion,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)

Try:

fdisk -l /dev/hda

This will show you your partition table. You may find that hda2 is an
extended partition and your actual D: may be hda5.

> Since this didn't work, I tried to mount C: . I deleted the above line
> from /etc/fstab and added the following line:
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win ntfs defaults 0 0
> This gave me the error message "mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel".
> I did "man mount" and there it specifies ntfs as one of the supported
> filesystems.

The ntfs kernel module is not supplied as standard with FC2. You can get
it from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/downloads.html

I would mount your NTFS partition read-only if I was you. If you look at
the documentation at the above site you'll see why.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>