Mount a Windows partition to Linux

[Ageek]

In general most of the all modern distribution of Linuxes automatically connect the Windows partition to Linux.

When installing the Linux version, if there any windows partition Linux automatically enter an entry to the location /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Lets think if connect a new Windows hard disk physically to a Linux machine,

Initially you can list down the partition by typing

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# fdisk -l 

Out put may like this, this may differ from your output

Device Boot	Start	End	Blocks	Id	System
/dev/sda1	1	653	5245191	12	Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2 *	654	7028	51207187+	7	HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3	7041	14593	60669472+	f	W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4	7029	7040	96390	83	Linux
/dev/sda5	9592	14593	40178533+	7	HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6	7041	7283	1951834+	82	Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7	7284	9591	18538978+	83	Linux

OR

You can type

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mount

you may see a output like this

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/dev/sda5 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

In previous output you can distinguish the Windows partitons

Then you can mount it to a location, first you have to create a mount point in location such as /media/windows

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# mkdir -p /media/windows 
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /media/windows

This creates a directory in location /media/windows . The parameter -p stand for, if there is a folder with the same name 'don;t ceate it'. mount mounts /dev/sda5 to /media/windows which is having a NTFS file format.