[clug] Mounting Win XP DIRECTORY in Linux

[Ian Matters]

Hi Peter.

First question: Do you know which format your Windows hard drive  
partition is formatted in 0 NTFS or FAT32?

Cheers, Ian
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On 28/05/2005, at 12:35 PM, Peter Anderson wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am a 'newish' Linux user.  I have a PC with two hard drives; one has
> WinXP Home and the other Umbutu 5.04 (and very good it is too).  I  
> have
> modified fstab to mount 'hda1' at Linux boot time.  However, I would
> like to mount at the Windows "My Documents" directory to save all the
> clicking and mousing required to navigate down the directory tree each
> time I want to access a document stored there.  I have tried to create
> a link to "My Documents" but I get error messages about the drive  
> being
> write protected (or something similar).
>
> I have experimented with commands such as:
>
> sudo mount
> /dev/hda1/Documents\040and\040Settings/Peter\040Anderson/My 
> \040Documents/
> /media/windocs -t ntfs -o umask=0222
>
> But can't get anything to work.  I have also 'Googled' extensively and
> not been able to find much help (except the use of the '\040' escape
> sequence for 'space' characters.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?  Can it be done?  Or, does 'mount'
> only mount at the root volume level?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
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