Mounting Windows partitions

[Timothy Murphy]

Tim wrote:

> Jame Dobbs:
>>> fstab entries I propose to use are of the following form:
>>> 
>>> /dev/hda1 /mnt/WinC ntfs user,ro,umask=000 0 0
>>> /dev/hdb5 /mnt/WinD vfat user,rw,umask=000 0 0
> 
> Timothy Murphy:
>> Why not just say (as root)
>> mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt ?
> 
> Probably because they're mounting two partitions, not one.  ;-)

Personally, I never try to mount my NTFS partition;
if I want to read or write a Windows file, I put it on the VFAT drive.
In fact, that is the only reason I have a VFAT partition.

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