I was able to find my partitions by listing out /dev/disk/by-uuid (ls
-l /dev/disk/by-uuid).  This will provide the UUID   I would think
(did not try it out when I was in Ubuntu using wubi) that sudo fdisk
-l would list out your partitions along with providing the filetype
like:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3ddf88b8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4334    34811892    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           18595       19457     6932047+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            4335       18594   114543450    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            4596       12068    60026872+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            4335        4595     2096419+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           12069       13373    10482381   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           13374       14678    10482381   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           14679       18594    31455238+  83  Linux

Another easy way to obtain the information is to use blkid (might need
sudo -- I am currently in Gentoo).  It should list out the partition,
UUID, and filetype so you can find your Windows partition.

You should be able to go into into /etc/fstab and add your Windows
partition to be something like:

# /dev/sda1
UUID=1234AB5C67DE8901 /mnt/vista ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

If you are using Hardy or higher, ntfs-3g should be already installed.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Richard Forth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cool, how do you do that? (and sorry for any mis-information given) I didnt
> think unbuntu (wubi) could see outside its own little world.
>
> 2008/12/11 Malcolm Hunter <[email protected]>
>>
>> > thanks both. So its not possible to mount the "rest" of the Windows file
>> > system and access files thereon from Ubuntu ?
>>
>> Yes it is - just the same way you can normally. The only difference
>> between Wubi and a standard install is the disk is in a file on the NTFS
>> partition rather than a raw disk.
>>
>> HTH
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