Unable to windows drives in xubuntu .

[higatech]

hi ,
Plz tell me how can i see windows drive in xubuntu ....

[sharks]

So the way I figure it, if you want to mount your windows partition on Xubuntu, which is the flavour of Ubuntu I use, you got to edit the fstab fil in /etc

So since your editing a kickass system file what you should do is back it up.

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo vi /etc/fstab

Make the directory where you want your drive mounted, I chose /mnt/windows

sudo mkdir /mnt/windows

The syntax for the fstab files is:

file system mount point type options dump pass

So you append the following lines to your file:


file system mount point type options dump pass

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs'+' noatime,defaults,users,ro,umask=0 0 0

NOTE: My code div isn't handling the width overflow properly. There's a couple of tabs after ntfs, and the '+' indicates the same line, not a new line.

hda1 is mostly your C drive. If your drive is FAT32 you change the ntfs to vfat.

if you don't feel like mounting it at boot time then just make the directory and run this at a terminal

sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs'+' noatime,defaults,users,ro,umask=0 0 0

NOTE: My code div isn't handling the width overflow properly. There's a couple of spaces after ntfs, and the '+' indicates the same line, not a new line.

and to unmount

sudo umount /mnt/windows

[drs305]

To easily mount and use NTFS drives and add the entry to your fstab, there is an app called ntfs-config.

Install it with:

sudo aptitude install ntfs-config

To start it:

sudo ntfs-config

or:
System Tools, NTFS Configuration Tool