Mount or view windows partiton in Debian

[ihcman]

I just recently installed Debian. I would like to acess my windows partition and I'm sure its quite easy. searched around on here a bit but no results found via search.

here's my drive config.

Hda1 - fat32 (windows xp)
Hda6 - fat32 (storage)
Hda5 - linux
Hda7 - linux swap

Basically All i need to acess is Hda6 as it has all my music and movies on it. I guess this is one of the bad points of being more familiar with Os's like lycoris. Anyhow.....

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Saptech]

Create a mount point if you haven't already, then in a terminal window, as root, type mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /mnt/storage and that will mount it for you.

You can do that with the XP partition also, just change the vfat to NTFS and it need to be compiled into your kernel to work.

[ihcman]

next question......

I can make this automatic by editing my FSTAB in /etc/fstab right??

I am assuming that this is done in root. through terminal?? I am having a bit of grief doing this. I've tried the "man edit" but its a bit deep as I'm still learing. this is why I went to a more complex distro as I wanted to learn.

thanks for the help

[JP83]

Just edit that but add new line in the end of file this is my file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda4 / xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c vfat auto,user,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_d vfat auto,user,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_e vfat auto,user,umask=0 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /cdrom1 iso9660 user,noauto 0 0