how to mount ntfs partitions

A common problem (almost for me in the past) when have installed multiple O.S. in the same computer is remember what device belong to determinate partition. For remember that, we can use the following command as root:

#fdisk -l

then the output show us the device and the determinated filesystem.

now, if we have a windows xp installed in other partition, we can install the ntfs-3g package.

after, we mount the partition with the following command (as root):

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdax /mnt/

and now, we have our windows partition mounted in linux.

Now, if you want this changes permanently, you can edit the /etc/fstab file (as root too).

(I like use nano)

nano /etc/fstab

and add the following line:

/dev/sdax /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

Save it and type: mount -a

and now you can browse the /mnt/win_c directory and search into your windows files.

remember add a locale that corresponding to your country.
the target folder /mnt/win_c was create for my following the same way that made it mandrake 8.1 (my fisrt distro).


See You.