accessing my windows hard drive

Christophe Le Guern christophe at le-guern.net
Wed Nov 26 14:30:54 UTC 2003


On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:24:00 -0600
Russ Edwards <redwards at scs.sk.ca> wrote:

> I have my laptop dual booting.  For my work I need Windows about 1% of
> the time.  How can I dump some files onto my windows partition so that I
> can back them up?

hello,

you can mount the windows filesystem

as root:
# mkdir /mnt/windows/
# mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/

as long as /dev/hda1 is your windows partition of course
you can also put this in /etc/fstab later

christophe





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