Hylton,
Russell Hoffman has proved you wrong, and I could too. This email is
mainly just to add on to Russell's -- if the Windows partitions are not
NTFS you can read and write to them. My windows partitions are primary
and logical, some are fat and some are vfat and I can read and write to
any of them. The one thing that is difficult to do is change ownership
and permissions -- you can't do it on an individual file basis but only
for an entire partition (IIRC). Also IIRC, the owner and permissions
for my windows files is set in the fstab file.
Mine currently only work as root, but I'm rather certain there's a way
to change that -- I think you add something like "user" to the fstab
line for the particular partition.
Hope this helps,
Randy Kramer
Hylton Clarke wrote:
>
> kaab kaoutar wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > i have mounted C drive using hda1
> > but i'm not able to mount d drive cause i don't know its name!
> > i tried hda2,hdb,hdd,hdc etc but in vain
> > Thanks
>
> If you have, say, a 20 Gb hard drive and you have used windows to split that
> drive into a 10 Gb C drive and a 10 Gb D drive, the C drive will be a logical
> partition and the D drive will be an extended partition. I have personally
> done this so that if I format my C drive, all my documents are safe on the D
> drive.
>
> Under Linux, you can only mount logical drive partitions, you can not mount
> windows extended partitions. In other words, you can't mount your D drive. If
> someone can prove me wrong, please do.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Hylton Clarke
> www.eBucks.com
