To add to this explanation, you need to know where are and which is the name of your windows partitions; there are many solutions I forget ("mount -l" seems to work) and I -now- tried as root (sudo must work) the following:
/sbin/fdisk -l
The name of each portion of the disk(s), whether it is mounted or not, can be read, and, according to its size and its nature, you can find out which is your windows partition:
the following (between ---) shows what can be obtained :
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[tttents]# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disque /dev/sda: 80.0 Go, 80000000000 octets
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Unit?s = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets
P?riph?rique Amorce D?but Fin Blocs Id Syst?me
/dev/sda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 13 266 2040255 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 267 3074 22555260 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 3075 9726 53432190 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3075 4042 7775428+ 83 Linux
P?riph?rique Amorce D?but Fin Blocs Id Syst?me
/dev/sdb1 * 1 6099 48990186 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb2 6100 14593 68228055 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 6100 11906 46644696 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 11907 14593 21583296 7 HPFS/NTFS
P?riph?rique Amorce D?but Fin Blocs Id Syst?me
/dev/sdc1 * 51 98740 7895104 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 are FAT partitions, and might be Windows sdc1 is tiny -8 Go, from their blocs size-, sdb1 is bigger ca 50G, from the number of blocs ;
/dev/sdb6 IS *most* likely a windows partition (NTFS); if debian can read and write ntfs ( recent scientific linux can but some other linuxen cannot), one can give it the name one wants (
"mkdir /full_path_the_name_I_want")
and mount it
All these commands are done as root, and one should be very comfortable, not to make any typo, and read their manual before("man fdisk && man mkdir && make mount" until one is sure).
Very sorry for my not knowing debian's ntfs-3g support, but I use the disk detections on many linux families;
Of course, you should not try this, for the first time, with (m)any external disks!!
Have a nice night
denis
dbrion1 at yahoo.fr
--- En date de?: Dim 31.1.10, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith at eku.edu> a ?crit?:
De: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith at eku.edu> Objet: Re: [R-sig-Debian] accessing the Windows side from Debian ?: r-sig-debian at r-project.org Date: Dimanche 31 Janvier 2010, 22h52 "Hodgess, Erin" <HodgessE at uhd.edu> writes:
I have a desktop which has both Windows and Debian
operating systems.
If I am on the Debian side, is there a way to access
file from the
Windows side, please?
You need to 'mount' the windows partition to your Debian file system, and then you can read files from within Debian. To do this, you need a mount-point, and an appropriate entry in your /etc/fstab file. In my case, I have an empty directory in home (~/) named 'windows'. The corresponding entry in /etc/fstab is: /dev/sda1??? /home/tyler/windows??? ntfs noauto,ro,users,noexec,umask=000 0 0 I can then mount the windows side with the command 'mount ~/windows' and read files like I would any other directory. Some caveats: 1) I use a pretty minimal setup, and use the command-line as my primary user interface. If you're using Gnome or KDE, you may have more 'point and clicky' alternatives 2) I haven't tried writing to the windows partition from within Debian. It used to be impossible. I'm not sure where we are in the transition between risky and safe, so I just avoid it altogether. 3) Depending on your hardware, the windows partition might not be at /dev/sda1, so you might have to do some poking around to figure it out. 4) I don't remember the details for the fstab options. What I've got above works for reading an ntfs-formatted partition. You'd have to change it to read a fat32 partition, or to mount a partition read-write. 5) Possibly another out-dated concern, I always unmount the windows drive before hibernating or shutting down. Unmounting is done via the command 'umount ~/windows' HTH, Tyler
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