i would like to how i can see other partition that are available under windows system.
the parttions are formated fat32, and i am using redhat ver 9.
thanks

first, make a directory (like say, windows) (probably make it in /mnt)
then
mount -t vfat /dev/hdxx /your/directory

the hdxx is any of hda, hdb, hdc, hdd where hda is primary master, hdb is primary slave, hdc is secondary master and hdd is secondary slave. the second x is a number telling which partion. it could be 1, 2, up to 5 or 6 (or higher.....)

for example,

mkdir /mnt/windows
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows

then you can use konqueror/whatever to browse /mnt/windows/C/xxxxxxx

you will have to be root user to do the mounting (use the su command to become root temporarily)

if something is wrong, sorry, i am also still a newbie

I think red hat "sees" other dirves, but file tranfers between drives on the same machines may not be possible. I know that Windows sees the Linux drives as healthy, but identifies them as "unknown partition". I cannot access any Linux drives from Windows, even if the Windows drive is FAT32 or not.

well i suppose you just might have one problem. when you exit su mode...you wont be able to rwx (read-write-execute) as you mounted as partition as root. try giving options like this

try man mount at the console or try google keyword "man mount" for more info.

Correct me if i'm wrong

I didn't realize this was possible. (I'm learning more in a few hours in here than by reading through mountains of documentation.) I guess viewing an NTFS drive from Linux is right out?

You can view and access files stored on Windows partitions, including NTFS formated partitions, from some Linux distributions. The distros that set up the necessary mount points include SuSE (rpm distro), Knoppix (Debian based) and Mandrake (rpm distro) to name just a few.

Normally you can read files and play back MP3s etc saved on a Windows partition - I've just successfully burned an ISO file located on a Windows NTFS partition to CD using K3b on SuSE Linux 9.1.
What you can't do is save files TO a Windows partition from Linux, that is yet to come.

To make Windows partitions "visible" in Red Hat, you need to mount them. Please note that Red Hat 9 does NOT have support for NTFS partitions! Please visit this thread for more info:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...itions+Red+Hat

Hope this helps!

Ok, if you can mount and read from it...is there a way you can set the permissions on the Windows partition to write to it as well? Just a thought at least. Almost makes me wish you could network it (which don't think you can anyways) like through Samba or something.

Tue Jul 20 06:09:02 IST 2004

/dev/hdc2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc9 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /edr msdos umask=000,conv=a

/dev/hdc2 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hdc9 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
/dev/hdc5 on /edr type msdos (rw,umask=000,conv=a)

The above is an extract from my /etc/fstab and my `mount` commands in Linux. In DOS and W98, the the device mounted as /dev/hdc5 reads as e:. E-drive is a FAT system. Not tested for FAT32, but I expect it will work. Not sure about NTFS. I think it will need some permissions on the Windows server side.

HTH
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Basslord,

you can't network your Linux to your Windows partitions if they're all on the same system - not even Samba is that clever. Reason - your Windows system isn't booted!
No, so far there is no way to write to a NTFS partition from Linux, although I have managed to copy some files from SuSE to a Windows partition. These were MP3/AVI and JPG files, an rpm file and one tar.gz install file. How it did it when that's supposed to be impossible - no idea! Miracles happen!

Yeah I know LittleAngel...just makes me wish you could.