Sharing one Windows Drive and Linux on my machine

[mafondue]

Is there a way so that from my linux OS i can share one of my Windows drive.

Today i have Windows XP defined as C,D,E and F

Thank you in advance

Richard:confused:

[WackyOldWiz]

Assuming we are talking of a single hard drive (=hda in Linux) with C a primary partition and D,E,F as logical partitions, you need to identify the partition numbers according to Linuux. These will depend on how you've placed root & swap etc in the drive map.

In Linux, all logical partitions are numbered sequentially starting with hda5. If your D,E, & F Win partitions are say hda6, 7 & 8, suggest you create directories winD, winE & winF within your /mnt directory. You can then mount the appropiate partition to its matching directory for access under Linux. e.g. /mnt/winD.

To avoid possibly fatal accidents, I don't recommend exposing your C drive to Linux unless you know what you're doing.

[WackyOldWiz]

Richard,

I'm a bit confused because your last post turned up in another thread. Can we stick to this one?

To answer your question, /mnt should be one of the directories under your root (/) directory.

What linux distro are you using?:(

[bwkaz]

And which filesystem? NTFS or VFAT?

[mafondue]

Dear WackyOldWiz, i am using Red Hat 7.2 and Wiondows XP?

So what exactly do i put in /mnt directory?

Thank you in advance:confused:

[WackyOldWiz]

You need to go to the /mnt directory and create three new subdirectories /winD, /winE and /winF . If you don't know how to do this, use your console and look up the "man" entries for chdir and makedir.

You might read your distro's docs as well because, when you've created the new directories you need to specify them as mount points for your Windoze partitions ie.

mount hda(?) /mnt/winD

where (?) is the number Linux has given to your D:\ partition.

CZe ennit?