accessing my windows hard drive

[Terry Polzin]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 09:30, Christophe Le Guern wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:24:00 -0600
>
> Russ Edwards <redwards at scs.sk.ca> wrote:
> > I have my laptop dual booting.  For my work I need Windows about 1% of
> > the time.  How can I dump some files onto my windows partition so that I
> > can back them up?
>
> hello,
>
> you can mount the windows filesystem
>
> as root:
> # mkdir /mnt/windows/
> # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/
>
> as long as /dev/hda1 is your windows partition of course
> you can also put this in /etc/fstab later
>
> christophe
>
>
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you may want to use -t vfat rather than msdos if you want to use long  file 
names that are outside the 7/3 dos convention.