Hi

Both FAT and NTFS can be mounted.

FAT32:
1. Use rmformat/format to find the device (eg. /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0p0)
2. Use the following syntax for mount:
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c5t0d0p0:c /mnt

NOTE the change from rdsk (raw char device) to  dsk (block device) and use of 
"p0"
Replace ":c" with d/e as required for first/second/third FAT32 partition (if 
you have more than one). Note the only *primary* partitions can be mounted.

NTFS:
Belenix distro website has tools for NTFS (including a mounter). Its a bit 
hackish in the sense that it can only:
1. mount it readonly
2. mount only one partition
3. can't read compressed/encrypted files on NTFS

But it works well. Belenix guys have implemented it in userland by using 
NTFSprogs with an instrumented NFS server so don't worry if you see the 
following in "mount" output

% mount | grep ntfs
/mnt/ntfs on 127.0.0.1:/ remote/read 
only/setuid/devices/port=56164/public/vers=2/proto=udp/xattr/dev=5040001 on Sun 
May  4 10:58:17 2008

use it like this:

# mount -F ntfs /dev/dsk/c0d0p1 /mnt

c0d0p1 ... p4 for 1-4 primary partition.

HTH
- Akhilesh
 
 
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