On Wednesday 03 May 2006 20:43, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 1:54 pm, Bernard wrote: > > Ok It is working, it mounts on boot up. > > > > Now how do I get my main C: drive to also show and mount at start up. > > Remember that I told you that read/write access to ntfs partitions is > still very flakey Bernard. True, but reading from NTFS is fine, and that is what the fstab lines posted previously do.
> I think that my suggestion that you have your "shared" data on fat32 > partitions so you can access it from either windows or Linux is a common > suggestion. > > Leave your "C" drive for your Windows system. > > I am preparred to stand corrected if others have better ideas. If this is a regular need then the 'Captive' system is probably the way to go, because it offers slow yet completely safe writing to NTFS from within Linux. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ There are also a number of derivatives. There is at least one ext2 file system driver available for use under windows. A couple of list members use Windows within an instance of Qemu to transfer files very successfully. I use a vfat formatted USB memory stick to move data between systems. This whole subject was examined at some length by Linux-Magazine in August 2005. http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/57/ http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/57/Captive_NTFS.pdf -- CS
