Re: mount NTFS WinXP Partition

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I setup a dualboot for my computer (2 fulltime and 1 part-time debian
> machines now :) and I saw Debian can handle NTFS, The winXP partition.
>
> /dev/hda1		Windows	NTFS
> /dev/hda2		Debian	ext2
> /dev/hda3		Swap		Swap
>
> I tried the command mount /dev/hda1, didn't work so I added the line
>
>   FS		   MP		type		Options	     dump  pass
> /dev/hda1  /windows	NTFS	errors=remount-ro		0	1
>
> to fstab, but still didn't work. Can I mount the NTFS Partition? If yes -->
> how?
>  

sudo mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /windows

Read/Write on NTFS is experimental and quite risky, thus the option for 
read-only.

Kent