Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:39 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote:I'm surprised the Windows drive isn't mounted automatically under /mnt/windows - this is the default in a Mandrake installation. If it is mounted and you were just asking how you can get at the Windows files more conveniently, the easiest way is to put a symbolic link to wherever you have your documents in Linux. After cd-ing to this directory (e.g. cd /home/langsley/Documents)
Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system.I have many documents there I would like to transfer to my Linux, Documents directory. Is there any way I can conveniently do this? LTR
Langsley, you actually do not need to transfer anything. You can make this D-drive of yours accessible to linux in read-write-mode by editing (as root) your "/etc/fstab".
In that file, there's a stanza for your hda5. Edit it to contain the option "umask=0" like this :
....iso8859-15,codepage=850,rw,nosuid,umask=0,nodev 0 0...
Save the file and you can use this D-drive from within linux. Cool,... eh ?
ln -s /mnt/windows/My\ Documents ./
Make sure you have write-permission to Windows files (see previous posts on this issue).
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