Mounting Windows Partitions

Darin Perusich Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com
Thu Jul 12 09:18:25 EDT 2001


mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk will mount the filesystem, as long as
the windows fs is the first one on the disk. the fstab entry should look
like. /mnt/disk is a directory that i make, as well as /mnt/zip,
/mnt/jaz ./etc.


/dev/hda1	/mnt/disk	vfat	defaults	1 2

that should do it for you.


Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> Can anyone tell me how to mount my windoz partitions on a dual boot box with
> RedHat 7.1. I had Mandrake 8.0 on before and it mounted them automatically
> but I wanted to play with RedHat a little more since I downloaded the ISO's.
> If anyone would like a copy let me know, I will most likely be attending
> this weekends meeting. I should have looked at Mandrakes /etc/fstab (I
> believe this would be the file to look at) file before I put on RedHat.
> Thanks, peter at thecybersource.com
> p.s. The windoz partition(s) are on hda and the Linux partitions on hdb.

-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com



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