[clug] Mounting Win XP DIRECTORY in Linux
Peter Anderson
pjafrombbay at yahoo.com.au
Sat May 28 03:43:13 GMT 2005
--- Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> Yes, mount only mounts whole volumes.
>
I thought that might be the case!
> What you want to do is mount the whole thing as say /mnt/c, and then
> expose that subdirectory at a convenient location. So
>
> sudo mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs -o umask=0222 /mnt/c
>
> (or the equivalent in your fstab.)
>
> If you want to make it
> look
> like a whole filesytem for some reason then you could also do
>
> sudo mount --bind '/mnt/c/Documents and Settings/Peter Anderson/My
> Documents' /media/windocs
>
Martin,
Thanks for your quick reply. The existing fstab entry (which works)
is:
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0
Following your advice, I used:
sudo mount --bind '/media/windows/Documents and Settings/Peter
Anderson/My Documents' /media/windocs
And BINGO! It works.
Now if I could ask a supplementary question; how do I get the 'windocs'
directory to appear on the desktop or more usefully as a top level open
in a 'file open' dialog?
By the way, I hope replying to this e-mail puts the response back in
the archive.
Many thanks,
Peter
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