Showing posts with label ntfs-3g. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ntfs-3g. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Access windows partition from your linux box


I know many of you using linux together with windows in one PC, in other word using dual boot system. So, the best way to access your windows partition is using Ntfs-3g.
Firstly download the packages :
# wget -c http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ntfs-3g-1.2310.tgz

Then untar and compile the package
# tar zxvf ntfs-3g-1.2129.tgz

(in ntfs-3g-1.2129 directory)
#./configure
#make
#make install
(all step using root )

start using
#mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdax /mnt/windows
(if using using sata use sdax, x are the partition numbers)

You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following line to the end of the /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hdax /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Now you can use your windows partition.