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Subject: [LIH] Reg:Sharing files between Linux and Windows
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:38:09 -0500
From: "chandrasekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Hi everyone
How do I share files between Linux and windows installed on the same
system.
regards
chandrasekar
Mr.chandrasekar,
You can do this by mounting your "C" drive of
Windows as
another filesystem in Linux. If your "C:\"
is formatted
as FAT/FAT32 then
do the following
1. Create a directory
under /mnt and name it win_c
2. Now issue the
command mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /mnt/win_c (-t
vfat supports for long file names)
3. This mounts
the c:\ as another filesystem and you can copy
files between Linux and Windows.
However this assumes
that your c:\ is named as /dev/hda1.
Replace hda1 with the corresponding hdaX.
However if your
c:\ is NTFS formatted, you will need to rebuild
your kernel for NTFS support.
PS: I have assumed
that you are trying to copy the file from
your c:\ on Machine 'A' to your Linux partition
on Machine 'A'
Building your kernel for NTFS support:
For this you will need to recompile your kernel.
When you are doingthis, you will have an option called File Systems or
something like that.
Here select the support for MS-DOS (FAT) and
NTFS too. However I
think, for NTFS you will only get READ-ONLY.
Try it out and let us know. On how to do a kernel compilation go through
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html
<http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html>
and for the latest kernel visit
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/>
Hope this helps.
This topic was discussed once in BLUG.I am giving
summary of what they discussed and which proves to be correct when you
do it.
Revert back if this is helpful.
Cheers.
Mahantesh.
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