How can I automount a windows partition?
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How can I automount a windows partition?
How can I automount a windows partition?
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Re: How can I automount a windows partition?
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Re: How can I automount a windows partition?
Please post the output of the commands (with the prompt and command included):
sudo parted -l
id
lsblk -fi
cat /etc/fstab
Tell me the Windows partition you want to mount and suggest a name for the mount point (don't specify the full path, just the desired name).
Re: How can I automount a windows partition?
Best not to mount the Windows OS partition, and definitely do not write to it from Mint, but if you have a data partition that can be safely mounted using the /etc/fstab file.
Re: How can I automount a windows partition?
Adding the drive to your /etc/fstab file will do it. I have no idea why ajgreeny says not to do this or not to write to the disk from Linux. I, and many others, have done this for years with no problems.
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Re: How can I automount a windows partition?
I used to write to my Windows XP partition, the last Windows I know anything about but I understand from others that the Windows 10 partition is a great deal more difficult in that situation.
I accept that I may be over concerned about this as I've not used Windows for 16 years, but I think you could easily find Windows users who have messed up their system by editing files that should never be edited without good knowledge of what they're doing.
I accept that I may be over concerned about this as I've not used Windows for 16 years, but I think you could easily find Windows users who have messed up their system by editing files that should never be edited without good knowledge of what they're doing.
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Re: How can I automount a windows partition?
A little trick could be to create a 2nd NTFS partition in Windows where you put all your datas.
This partition, being non-system will be easy to mount using the Gnome Disks tool and you won't have to bother interfering with Windows system files because they will remain on the initial Win partition.
It works for me with LMDE4 mounting Win8 data partition at startup.
This partition, being non-system will be easy to mount using the Gnome Disks tool and you won't have to bother interfering with Windows system files because they will remain on the initial Win partition.
It works for me with LMDE4 mounting Win8 data partition at startup.
dual boot LMDE4 (mostly) + LM19.3 Cinnamon (sometimes)
Re: How can I automount a windows partition?
That is definitely the safest way to deal with Windows 10 in dual boot with Mint or any other Linux distro.Aztaroth wrote: ⤴Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:21 am A little trick could be to create a 2nd NTFS partition in Windows where you put all your datas.
This partition, being non-system will be easy to mount using the Gnome Disks tool and you won't have to bother interfering with Windows system files because they will remain on the initial Win partition.
It works for me with LMDE4 mounting Win8 data partition at startup.
I know very little about Windows 10 apart from the fact that it is, according to other users I know, very easy to upset by writing files to the Windows OS partition, hence my warning.
Perhaps many other users manage to write to that partition with no problems, but it may also make more sense to not give the system any chance to be damaged, by creating a separate data partition.