mount a windows parbreastion on linux

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, atalla ..

here's my fstab for reference:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for detailsdev-VolGroup00-LogVol00 ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=-boot boot ext3 defaults 1 2dev-devpts dev-pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0dev-shm dev-shm tmpfs defaults 0 0dev-proc proc proc defaults 0 0dev-sys sys sysfs defaults 0 0dev-VolGroup00-LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0dev-hda1 mnt-windows vfat users,noauto,rw 0 0dev-fd0 media-floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0dev-hdc media-cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

the relevant line is third to last,mnt-windows. Make sure to "mkdir mnt-windows" and, then, I believe, the command is "mount -t vfatdev-fd0media-windows"

Except, of course, I'm not using NTFS. As others have pointed out, it's not safe to write to an NTFS parbreastion. The reason it's not safe is that Microsoft might change NTFS at any time. So, writing to NTFS is experimental because, while it should work right *now*, it might not work by the time you finish this sentence, if NTFS was changed and XP updated it.

One solution is to create a fat32 parbreastion to which linux can safely write. I found it simpler to just use fat32 for the whole windows parbreastion.

-Thufir