Linux Reading my windows partition

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  1. Spiral Architect

    Spiral Architect Cooked on Phonics

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    I've got Mandrake and XP on seperate hard drives. However, when i'm in Mandrake I want to be able to read my mp3's from my Windows drive. Is there any way I can do this?

    I've not had much time to play around with Linux before, so its all new to me!
     
    Spiral Architect, 17 Feb 2005
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  2. trigger

    trigger Procrastinator

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    First you will need to mount your Windows drive:

    Code:
    $ mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
    Obviously change hda1 to whatever your is. Then you can access your Windows partition from the /mnt/windows directory.

    edit: And if you are feeling flush, you could even edit your /etc/fstab file to make it automatically mount the Windows partition on boot!
     
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  3. planki

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    only downside is you cant write to it which is annoyying
     
    planki, 17 Feb 2005
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  4. tk421

    tk421 Idiot.

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    no, but you can make a small fat32 partition for "swap" between nix and winders ...
     
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