On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:14:37AM +0000, Gary wrote:
> Just want to offer a quick (possible) correction:
> 
> > 
> > sudo mount -t cifs /dev/sda1 windows
> > 
> > Then, you should be able to copy them over to the Feisty partition.
> > 
> 
> Shouldn't that be 'sudo mount -t ntfs ..." ???  Never heard of "cifs". o_O

Well, it used to be -t smbfs.  (Or something similar.)  However, that's
been deprecated in favor of cifs.  It's mounting it as a samba share.
He can probably use ntfs too, but I always mount MS shares as cifs,
which is the latest and greatest version of samba type shares.   



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