Mount WinXP partition??

[Estimated_Prophet]

I was dual booting a WinXP RC2 and Win ME. I installed mandrake 8.1 tonight and it automounted my fat32 partitions but not my XP partition which is NTFS. Can I mount this one as well, I know that if I can I would have to do it manually, so how do I do that?

[scanez]

First you have to make sure NTFS support is enabled in your kernel or you have it as a module (ntfs.o I think). Then to mount

mount -t ntfs /winxp_partition /mount_directory

I'm not sure about that -t ntfs though. Anyone else?
SC

[umnsilentbob]

howdy,
the -t ntfs flag is correct but i've been having some problems myself which brought me here. I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and this is my boggle(s).
I can mount my 2000 partition from both root and my U/N (bob) but when i mount from bob and try to access the mount point i get a permission denied message. furthermore, when i mount the partition from either user i can't get it to mount in rw mode, it always mounts as readable and executable to root only. anybody got any clues about that? :eek:
silent bob

[The Whizzard]

Originally posted by umnsilentbob:
<STRONG>howdy,
the -t ntfs flag is correct but i've been having some problems myself which brought me here. I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and this is my boggle(s).
I can mount my 2000 partition from both root and my U/N (bob) but when i mount from bob and try to access the mount point i get a permission denied message. furthermore, when i mount the partition from either user i can't get it to mount in rw mode, it always mounts as readable and executable to root only. anybody got any clues about that? :eek:
silent bob</STRONG>I would think twice about mounting a NTFS volume as R/W. The linux NTFS module is unstable and you could loose your data if it has write permissions.

[scanez]

If you check the section regarding NTFS support in the kernel configurtion, it tells you that write support is experimental and can be dangerous.

Sc

[thedexman]

DO NOT mount your NTFS partition writable unless you do not FEAR loss of DATA. When you mount the NTFS partition, I would suggest passing the option 'umask=222' either in the /etc/fstab or the mount command. This makes sure everybody has read & execute perms.