how can we access microsoft windows xp contents in redhat linux (mount).?
Monday, December 21st, 2009 at
22:02
I have two OS in my pc. now I need to access the window xp contents in Linux redhat enterprise edition.Some of my friend tell me that it is possible?
Tagged with: Linux • window xp
Filed under: Redhat
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Look up man mount for the full details. Reading Windows file systems is native to Linux using the mount command with the type set to fat32 or ntfs, whichever applies. Writing to ntfs is not supported generally as the file system is very touchy, and nobody wants to risk being responsible for trashed systems. There are add-ons you can download, but I have never risked this, I always create a fat32 partition for dual system use. Any system needing regular use of a disk repair facility (chkdsk) and regular defragmentation worries me. Windows is regularly capable of corrupting it’s own file systems without any outside help.
Hi,
Yes you can mount ntfs partition under linux by installing the package ntfs-3g
You can download this from the website
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Redhat is a supported platform.
-R.
As the others say, you can mount a windoze partition under Linux. I don’t use Redhat (gave up on it a long time ago – 7 or 8 years ago, before it got easy to work with – RPM and dependency problems did me in) so I can’t give guidance there.
Ubuntu automatically loads the other available partitions on startup. I seem to recall having used gparted in the past to mount and umount partitions, so if you have that installed, and Redhat isn’t cooperating, you might try that – just don’t make a mistake. Gparted meant for partitioning not mounting/umounting so a mistake could be serious!
I am surprised Redhat isn’t mounting them. Do yourself a favor and do a google search, or go to redhat’s support pages to find out what other RH users have done.
I can easily read NTFS. There are projects developing NTFS writing capabilities, and some are pretty functional – do some google research on those (or look in the RH forums, there might be a package already available that you can install).