Windows partition in Ubuntu

[zegulas]

Hi, I have live Ubuntu CD. I wanted to play some songs and movies which are on my 'D:' drive, but I could not find any way to find or mount that partition in Ubuntu. Plz help.

[cpyder]

Launch gparted from System-Administration
Check linux name for your D: drive. Most probably it would be listed as hda3. If not note whatever is the name and also the file system format.

Launch terminal from Applications-Accesories-Terminal
Run following commands for FAT32 partitions

sudo mkdir /media/windows/hda3
sudo mount /dev/hda3 /media/windows/hda3/ -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000

For NTFS

sudo mkdir /media/windows/hda3
sudo mount /dev/hda3 /media/windows/hda3/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

These commands will mount the drive in /media/windows/hda3 folder. Open the folder and have access to all your files.

Notes: You wont have write/delete access to NTFS partitions.
Replace <hda3> with the required drive name
If you are using the live CD, this procedure has to be repeated every time you log on. Anyone who knows how to avoid this may please educate us.

[JGuru]

@Cpyder, Instead of hda3 make it as win_d, win_e etc.,

$ sudo mkdir /media/win_d

Now mount the FAT/NTFS partition there

For NTFS read/write in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) You must install these packages:

$ sudo apt-get install libfuse2 fuse-utils

Now add fuse to the list of modules to load

$ echo fuse | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Now create a user group to access the NTFS partition

$ sudo addgroup ntfs

The output would look like this:
Adding group 'ntfs' (1002)...

Note down the GID ( the number printed after the group name) it may differ, we need
it later

$ sudo mkdir /media/win_c

$ gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Append the following line at the end of the file, using the GID previously noted down.

/dev/hda1  /media/win_c    ntfs-fuse     auto,gid=1002,umask=0002       0         0

Now save the file.
Add users to the ntfs group , where 'username' is the name of the user you would
like to have write access.

$ sudo adduser username ntfs

Reboot your PC now for the changes to take effect.

[cpyder]

Thanx for your suggestions JGuru, yep using names like win_c etc will surely help recognising where are you poke around . I dont remember installing those utilities for NTFS read/write. So I think NTFS read access is available by default in Dapper Drake. Write access for NTFS is not provided and various forums say that though write access is available using some utilities, it is still buggy hence i am keeping off-- for now

[JGuru]

@Cpyder, These NTFS access (read/write) utilities are tested & works well. I can't say
very surely that they are without bugs!! You can create a FAT32 Windows partition
& access that from Linux (read/write).

[Desi-Tek.com]

ubuntu provide great tool to access windows partition. u son't need to fire any command. Run the Ubuntu Disks Manager. From the system menu bar, choose System | Administration | Disks. In the Disks Manager, find the Hard Disk icon that represents your Windows drive. It is usually /dev/hda. You may see other Hard Disks that you don’t recognize, these are virtual devices created by the LiveCD.