Partition confusion

[A. Paul LeBarron II]

I use this:

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

works great.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Brown
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:26 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Partition confusion

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.
-- 
Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net>

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