Re: How to mount NTFS partitions in dual boot
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:15 pm
Just made a post about monting drives / partitions in my blog
Open terminal then list your disks/partitions. Your windows partition/drive will have ntfs next to it. Mines /dev/sda3, so ill use sda3 later on. Yours might be different. Now make a folder to mount the windows partition into. Then use nano to open fstab.
Add a new line to the fstab file and add the following, replacing sda3 with wherever your ntfs drive is located.
Save it and close it then go back to terminal and type:
You should now be able to find your whole windows partition in the directory /mnt/windows.
Open terminal then list your disks/partitions. Your windows partition/drive will have ntfs next to it. Mines /dev/sda3, so ill use sda3 later on. Yours might be different. Now make a folder to mount the windows partition into. Then use nano to open fstab.
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sudo fdisk -l
sudo mkdir /mnt/windows
sudo nano /etc/fstab
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/dev/sda3 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=000,defaults 0 0
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mount -a