mount windows drive

[mikeylikesitz]

Im using Suse 7.0 and all my drive automount; thats not the problem. The problem is i download a few things into linux(some by mistake...not paying attention)mp3's, a few files, some programs...etc. I can copy stuff from my mounted drive of windows into linux but i cant do the reverse, i assume thats a windows issue. is there a way to do it without file shareing?

[pbharris]

okay, you wnat to access you linux drive while in windows, right? check out:
http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_00219.html

i have not used it ( no windows on my computer...)

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[mikeylikesitz]

Sorry didnt post enough info. Dual boot with Win98 on first master drive and Suse on second slave drive. Actually i would like to copy file's while in linux to windows, like i would if i was coping files in linux from windows to linux(geez...that was confusing to write). Is it possible? Example...i use napster to download an mp3 into linux, and while in linux i would like to copy it to windows with out rebooting into windows.

[pcorbett]

Copy the files into the mounted windows directory.

eg. cp *.mp3 /mnt/windows

[mka]

Alright! Maybe I can help and get some questions answered at the same time!

You might have your /etc/fstab setup so that your windows partition is reachable from Linux. Look in that file and see if you see anything like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/c msdos etc etc
/dev/hda5 /mnt/d msdos etc etc
/dev/hda6 /mnt/e msdos etc etc

This is a portion of my /etc/fstab and it shows that I have three msdos drives mounted when I boot up. They happen to be my C:\, D:\, and E:\ drives from Windoze. If you see an msdos entry, all you do is have to copy your mp3s to the directory in /mnt/<windows drive designation> you want them in.

In a side note, I've had problems with Windoze not liking the long file names in Linux and truncating them. (Bastards!) http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Anyone know anyway to get Windoze to keep the long filename format from Linux?

Also, I noticed when I transferred large numbers of mp3s from Linux to Windoze via:

mv *.mp3 /mnt/d/mp3s

....that I lost a number of them. I don't know how, but I did. (I know, I know!! I should have copied them first!!! DUH!! :P )

Anyone have an explanation for that?

Hope that helps and I hope that someone can give some input on my questions!

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mka