How to access Windows files from Linux

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 10:46 am, Matt wrote:
> I just recently installed Linux and XP on the same HD - partitioned half
> and half on my 80 gig. In the past with older versions of Windows I've
> seen an icon appear for the C: drive on my (KDE) desktop, but not this
> time. How do I view the Windows files? I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0.

What does your /etc/fstab file look like? Is the drive formatted with NTFS
or FAT32? It will work with either case, but the former is read-only.

The line you are looking for in fstab will appear similar to:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0

or

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs uid=,gid=,ro 0 0

Depending on which file system you have.

Also of note is that the directory /mnt/windows must exist.

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