Mounting Windows partitions
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Aug 25 14:34:11 UTC 2006
Tim wrote:
> Jame Dobbs:
>>> 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
>
> Timothy Murphy:
>> Why not just say (as root)
>> mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt ?
>
> Probably because they're mounting two partitions, not one. ;-)
Personally, I never try to mount my NTFS partition;
if I want to read or write a Windows file, I put it on the VFAT drive.
In fact, that is the only reason I have a VFAT partition.
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