How to mount my parition winXP ?

[Dellacherie Stephane]

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>Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:30:16 +0100
>From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>Subject: Re: How to mount my parition winXP ?
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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>Dellacherie Stephane wrote:
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>>I would like to mount my partition windozzze from my linux fedora. WinXP 
>>is on hda1 (ntfs system).
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>>What do I have to change ? Do I have to change something in the files 
>>/etc/fstab and/or /etc/mtab ?
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>>Thank you for the info !
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>You will need to install the ntfs kernel module. See 
>http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html
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>After installing this module you will be able to mount NTFS filesystems in 
>Linux. Mount them read-only; it is not (usually) safe to write to NTFS 
>partitions from Linux.
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>Paul.
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Hello Paul,

Thank you for the info. : it works very well ! :-)

What do you mean when you say "is not (usually) safe" ? Do you mean that 
I could damage the win system or the linux system by writing a linux 
file to the win partition or a win file to the linux system ?

Stéph