Seeing Windows Files From Fc4

[danyo64]

HOW?? i dont seem to be able to see my windows files from fedora core 4. everything i have tried has failed miserably .. although i really havent tried much ..

any help is much appreciated

[JTEX1414]

I don't think Linux can see files that are formatted in NTFS (linux is Fat32)....

[Blue_cow]

You can. I watched napoleon dynamite (which was on my windows partition) from linux... wait that was on slax.... would that make a difference?

[cybergrunt69]

Linux has no problem reading NTFS, but it just can't reliably write to the filesystem. It _can usually_ resize NTFS partitions also, it just can't modify data on them.

 

Are you windows drives even being recognized? Can you mount them at all? If they're not there on bootup, maybe they're just not in the fstab file...

[Guest Jeremy]

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html

[danyo64]

for blue cow... yes it being on slax makes a difference.. i can see all my windows files perfectally from slax.. i think the problem is that i didnt set up the dual boot properly .. to get into windows i have to stop fedora from loading then i go into a list with fedora core and "other".. other of coarse being xp .. so i think i'm going to re install fc4.. but ill probably just get lazy

[Jezza]

It does depends what patches are in the kernel you are using... The more recent kernel versions have no problems reading and resizing NTFS partitions, and AFAIK, they can also write to them. You just need to edit your fstab file and mount the partition