MountingWindowsPartitions

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 * As superuser, enter {{{
mount -a}}} to (re)mount all the partitions.

  • Create a mount point (directory) from where the parition will be accessed. Default for Ubuntu is to create all filesystem mount points in the /media directory.

    mkdir /media/partitionname

  • Mount the right partition to this mount point. Partitions are all found under /dev, and are labeled hd (common harddisk) or sd (SCSI or SATA harddisk) plus a, b, etc for the physical harddisk number, plus 1, 2, etc for the partition-number. On a multiboot system, the Windows C-partition can commonly found as /dev/hda1.

    • FAT partitions can be mounted with 

      sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/partitionname -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000

    • NTFS partitions can be mounted with 

      sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/partitionname -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222
      Note that you can only read from NTFS partitions, not write to them.

  • To automatically mount partitions at boot-up, edit the file /etc/fstab and add the following line for each FAT partition:

    /dev/hda1       /media/partitionname  vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000   0       0

    or for NTFS partitions:

    /dev/hda1       /media/partitionname  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0

  • As superuser, enter 

    mount -a
    to (re)mount all the partitions.

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