MOUNTING PARTITIONS ONTO LINUX !!!

[vijay_7287]

hi folks ! i have just installed fedora core 4 on an a 10 gb partition of my disk with ext3 file system;
i hav a 80 gb disk;
and the other partitions are on the ntfs file system on windows -- XP;

so can anyone tell me how to mount the remaining partitions on to FC4
without formating them ...... ????

[QwertyManiac]

hmm, this has been discussed several times, see this :
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora4.html
Download the right patch and follow the instructions
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html

[Netjunkie]

First you need to identify the partitions on your hard disk.

Create folders for each drive like cdrive, ddrive etc

If you want to mount them manually

run the command

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda* /cdrive

or you may add them to the fstab file so that they are mounted automatically

go to /etc/
locate the file "fstab"

Open the file in some text editor

add the following lines

# ***Start Of Fedora mount ntfs partitions enteries***

/dev/hda* /windows/cdrive: ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda* /windows/ddrive: ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda* /windows/edrive: ntfs defaults 0 0

# ***End Of Fedora mount ntfs partitions enteries***

* is the partition number

save the file & restart

[QwertyManiac]

No,
FC4 doesnt support NTFS and nor does any RH distro, so this wont work until u have applied the patch mentioned