FC4 - How can I have access to my Windows partition from Fedora?

[Hoffmann]

--- Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:

> Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote:
> > hi,
> > use :
> > #mount -t vfat /dev/hda? /somewhere/
> > hda? means your windows partition! [and i assume
> thats fat32, for ntfs check
> > google.]
> for NTFS (more often than not the default filesystem
> for modern windows
> OSs):
> go to http://rpm.livna.org
> download and install the yum setup RPMS provided
> there
> then install the NTFS modules for your kernel:
> 
> yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)
> 
> after this you will be able to mount an NTFS
> filesystem with
> mount -t ntfs,ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
> n.b. reading from NTFS filesystems works well.
> Writing to them is *not* a good idea. Write support
> is not perfect under
> linux. (hence the ro in the mount command above)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 

Hi Stuart,

When I run: mount -t ntfs,ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

I got the following error: mount: mount point
/mnt/windows does not exist

Could I hear from you again?

Thanks,
Hoffmann
ps: Which command should I use in order to determine
my partitions (hda1, hda2, etc.)?


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