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Hai friends ,

To download any softwares(utilities) related to linux can be downloaded from www.guruslabs.com/downloads.html
Enjoy!

And I have a doubt.
How can i mount my windows drives on linus!, please help me ....bye thank u .

contact me at: bharath_bkt@yahoo.co.in

for mounting refer last year's aug 2003 digit magz of the PDF in DVD/CD...

PS:
i don't do linux
happily living with windows ;-)

Do you have 1000 Digit Tips and Tricks book? That one was given some time (about 8 months) back. Mounting procedure is given in there and is fairly simple. I don't remember the proc now because PCQ Linux 2004 and knoppix mounts them automatically

Anyway, I will have a look at the proc given in that book and let you know.

What distro/version of Linux are you using?

Mounting Windows partitions in GNU/Linux

# mkdir /mnt/c
# mkdir /mnt/d
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/c
# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt/d

This assumes that your C drive is a FAT32 partition and your D drive is NTFS partition. And also assuming that your kernel supports NTFS loadable kernel modules.

after you are dome with your data transfer, you can unmount your partitons by.

# umount /mnt/c
# umount /mnt/d

Yo!! Here's goes the expert with his bag of tricks

bharath_bkt said:
How can i mount my windows drives on linus!!

Dont mount your Windows drives on Linus ... He wont like it...

...

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for automatic mounting using /etc/fstab .
open /etc/fstab in some editor ... let us say the partitions u want to mount r /dev/hda1, /devhda5, /dev/hda6 ... then u have 2 add the lines ... /dev/hda6 is ntfs(remember ur kernel has to support ntfs, if not u can either compile for it or try linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net)

/dev/hda1<tab>/mnt/Win_C<tab>vfat<tab>defaults<tab>0<space>0
/dev/hda5<tab>/mnt/Win_C<tab>vfat<tab>defaults<tab>0<space>0
/dev/hda6<tab>/mnt/Win_C<tab>ntfs<tab>defaults<tab>0<space>0

save and exit .. and make the directory under /mnt as u have specified there in fstab and
#mount -a

or after rebooting it will always b mounted ..
chk , #man fstab for what those fields stand for ...

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those has to be Win_C , Win_D , Win_E .. resp .. sorry for the typographical err

Thats good one neo_the_one. You have increased my knowledge.

Thanks.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/Win_C vfat auto,defaults 0 0

That auto directive has to be added to auto mount your partitions ...

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no need for that "auto" thing as said by GNUrag .. it comes AUTOmatically under defaults ... so no probs ..

neo_the_one said:
it comes AUTOmatically under defaults ... so no probs ..

Yes it automounts... i didnt read man pages earlier....

GNUrag, you read man pages!! Your mentor and guide Dr. Nagarjun suggested a better alternative last time. I thought you would be using that!!

BTW, what was the alternative? I forgot. Please tell me.

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Ok guys,
If u use gkrellms in Linux ( I do...) use this method to Monitor ur Gmail Account Directly in linux...
*www.linuxfordummies.org/index.cgi/Monitor_20a_20Gmail_20Account_20with_20gkrellm

GkRellm is the best monitoring tool available...

Do any of u guys know, how to Completly Mod the look and feel of Linux machine into Mac OSX.... (Most of it shutdown thanks to Apple Inc.)
So any of u have any links pls share..

tuxfan said:
BTW, what was the alternative? I forgot. Please tell me.

ya ya ya .... i meant info pages

# info fstab

But then, info first checks its info pages database, if no match is found, it checks man pages database...

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good link for /etc/fstab
*www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html#what
hope u like it