Mounting Windows partitions

[Timothy Murphy]

Jame Dobbs wrote:

> I want to mount the Windows FAT32 and NTFS paritions on my HDD to be
> visible in Fedora Core 5. Should I edit the /etc/fstab manually or is
> there a graphical tool that I should use for this task?
> The FAT32 paritions will be mounted read/write and the NTFS read only.
> 
> fstab entries I propose to use are of the following form:
> 
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/WinC ntfs user,ro,umask=000 0 0
> /dev/hdb5 /mnt/WinD vfat user,rw,umask=000 0 0
> 
> Are these entries correct? It's been a while since I had Linux installed
> on my PC so just want to check that I am on the right track.

Why not just say (as root)
mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt ?


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