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- r121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Great guide, new Linux users generally have a Windows partition they'd like to access. The only thing I'd add is that doing it the way the article says makes the entire Windows partition readable by every user, as Windows access permissions don't do anything on Linux. On a multi-user system, this may not be what you want, so what I put in my /etc/fstab was this:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs uid=username,gid=groupname,umask=227 0 0
thus giving the user "username" and the group "groupname" read and execute permissions, and none to everybody else. Note that the umask is like a chmod value, except it lists the permissions that are NOT enabled. so 027 would give the owner full access, the group read and execute access, and everyone else no access. - kimos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Just read on http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ that you actually can write to NTFS from linux. It's stable, and doesn't use a captive windows DLL. That's exciting for system recovery. I always looked at Knoppix (and the STD version) and all the windows rescue tools that it has, but realied that it was virtually useless in most cases since most machines that run windows use NTFS.
Cheers to them for reverse engineering! From the wiki:
Microsoft didn’t release any documention about the internals of NTFS, so we had to reverse engineer the filesystem from scratch. The method was roughly:
1. Look at the volume with a hex editor
2. Perform some operation, e.g. create a file
3. Use the hex editor to look for changes
4. Classify and document the changes
5. Repeat steps 1-4 forever - M4v3R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6On Dapper Drake, your windows partitions (FAT or NTFS, doesn't matter) are mounted automatically in /media/hdxx, both for read and write.
- icexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Great article. But how about the other way around? I'd love an article on how to access a Linux folder from Windows.
- scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can also do it via the shell:
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXX /mnt/winX
for a local drive, or:
sudo mount -t smbfs -o 'username=user,password=pass' /192.168.1.2/C$ /mnt/netwinc
for a network drive. - shergill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5haha.. you are referring to 'linux' as a 'kiddy OS'.. whoa.. thats a new one!
- shergill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Posted your comment on the blog. Hope you do not mind. Thanks!
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There are drivers available which make that pretty easy. For example:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm - mucnix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Download the KNOPPIX 5.0 live dvd and delete ntfs files all day.
- r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4First of all, let me state I'm an Ubuntu user, and I love it to death, but I don't like this guide, and let me tell you why. It makes little or not attempt to teach the user the commands and the use of the switches. This is tantamount to "giving the user a fish", sure he'll be able to get the job done, but how much has he really learned.
- mcflynnthm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's great, and useful too; I'm still easing my way into the world of Linux, and one of my big issues has been accessing my Windows drives (especially my mp3s; I can't really be at ease at my computer without my music!). Definitely dugg!
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@scheper
There are tools available for ReiserFS as well: http://p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html
I'm not sure about JFS. - rjg1021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Share Partitions Between Linux and Windows HOWTO
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/partition-share-HOWTO.html
Here's what I used to get my Windows partitions mounted on Linux. - scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can only get access to EXT2/3 drives, not ReiserFS or JFS (last time I checked).
- hater2win, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2NTFS drives are mounted read only by default in dapper.
- shergill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I believe people already posted that in the comments. Btw; the mount will already happen at login since its in the /etc/fstab file
- prae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it is plenty possible, you just need an up to date kernel
- gookie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Eggads! Do we need digg.com to know this? Is google shutting down?
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very nice, now if I could get Linux to work with my wireless adapter I would be all set.
- shergill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Spoken like a true fan. Thanks for the digg.. hehe :)
- UmberGryphon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3chrono13, if you think it's possible to write an NTFS partition from within Linux, feel free to tell us how. Submit it as an article--I'd digg it.
- chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google linux ntfs write:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+ntfs+write&btnG=Google+Search
But I would guess that if you were actually using Linux you would already know that it isn't difficult to get NTFS write support in Linux.
So if you don't want to go through the trouble of actually installing Linux, download Knoppix 5 and try it yourself. - Ensnared, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Great article. But how about the other way around? I'd love an article on how to access a Linux folder from Windows."
This one works like a charm: http://www.fs-driver.com/
It's only for ext2/3 though, but that's good enough for most people. - Genma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what good is a guide that only users who know it already would understand? I agree with the above, coming from a linux noob it means nothing to put up a procedure with no explanation of any commands or switches. obviously we can look it up, but then what would that make this guide... uh, USELESS. just another google ad page.
- x3n1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To use a fat32 drive, use the 'vfat' filesystem type rather than 'ntfs'
Cheers - ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why not just tell people hwo to do this from the command line and tell them how to make a shell script that they can setup to be run at login?
- x3n1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't digg this article for reasons stated in the first few comments.
- x3n1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tried using ntfs-fuse?
- kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digged cause it's Kubuntu
- perspectoff, on 01/27/2009, -0/+0The method for mounting Windows partitions evolves constantly in Kubuntu. To see the latest instructions for your version of Kubuntu, see
Kubuntu Guide at http://kubuntuguide.org - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Not true.
- LaCamiseta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Just remember that unless your drive is formatted as FAT32, you can't write to it. Linux (and OSX for that matter) can only read NTFS drives.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This guide says nothing about the NTFS driver. How up-to-date must the distribution be for this to work as advertised? Also, it says nothing about writing to the NTFS partition, but http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ seems to say that great strides on that have been made recently.
- Mr.Glass, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2does this work with fat and ntfs?
- atozand1to10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I expected that the article would deal with writing to NTFS format but it doesn't even mention that.
- rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1congrats! i think you got a lot of diggs because: linux-auto-digg, kde fanbois, and because people like to make this kind of stuff common knowledge (even if the vocal minority seems to be having a spaz somewhat)
- hifi78, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0This isn't really news... shouldn't this just be in the ubuntu wiki?
- shergill, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2whoa.. I got on front page of digg!!
- shakeyshakey, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0This shouldn't be on digg.
It's not tech news.
It's more cult-related, religious nonsense news.
Seriously now, don't you people know google? It has all those linux things you need to know. No need to brag about your kiddy OS here. - shakeyshakey, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Well despite this being a linux article, you're forgiven for the fact that it involves windows.
And this guide will be quite useful for new guys who take the wrong decision of trying linux on their machine, since they will be frustrated will use windows most of time and will have all of their files on a windows partition so they can format the linux partition without regret.
- On a sidenote: does anyone ever repaired the fact that digg has a apple category and a linux/unix category and not a windows category... (throws objectivity and parciality in the trash).
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