Partition confusion

Michael Brown mwkbrown at alltel.net
Sat Nov 8 23:25:45 EST 2003


I can access my windows partitions (vfat) from within Linux but I don't
know how you can access Linux partitions (ext3) from within windows .

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:50, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Michael Brown wrote:
> 
> > would like to use Linux to store everything but how do I access Linux
> > partitions from within windows? I mainly need access to my photos. I do
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/<windows_partition> /mnt/point/on/filesystem
> 
> The "-t vfat" may not be necessary. You may have to load the vfat module
> first too, but the mount call *should* automagically do it.
> 
> There are quite a few options you can pass to mount for vfat - man mount
> for them all. You can also find information in there on how to mount the
> partition on boot by editing your /etc/fstab.
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Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net>




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