On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 11:15, pinaki@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new user of FC2. I have windows XP in two partitions (C: as NTFS > and D: as FAT32) and Linux in the other. I am trying to access the Windows > partitions from Linux, but have not been successful. > > First I tried to mount the FAT32 partition. I added the following line to > /etc/fstab after logging in as root: > /dev/hda2 /mnt/win vfat rw,auto,user,exec,async 0 0 > When I tried mounting this, I got the following error message- > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many > mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partiotion, > instead of some logical partition inside?) Try: fdisk -l /dev/hda This will show you your partition table. You may find that hda2 is an extended partition and your actual D: may be hda5. > Since this didn't work, I tried to mount C: . I deleted the above line > from /etc/fstab and added the following line: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win ntfs defaults 0 0 > This gave me the error message "mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel". > I did "man mount" and there it specifies ntfs as one of the supported > filesystems. The ntfs kernel module is not supplied as standard with FC2. You can get it from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/downloads.html I would mount your NTFS partition read-only if I was you. If you look at the documentation at the above site you'll see why. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
