mount windows drive

[divinequran]

how to mount the windos on my linux machine, i have songs in my windows drive i try to copy it mounting it. when i try to mount it states error message unkown filesystem 'NTFS'

[corbin]

Samba.

 

Google it.

[steviewdr]

Samba is for mounting windows shares from another computer.

 

Im not sure if this is what you are looking for.

If your running linux and windows on the same computer (dual boot etc.), then its a bit trickier.

 

Typically it "just works" with the latest ubuntu/fedora. I'd suggest grabbing one of their latest livecds. They will automatically pick up and mount your windows partitions. Otherwise your going to have to look at something like http://mount-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_edgy_eft_ntfs_ntfs_3g

 

 

-steve

 

 

[corbin]

Oh dang....  Yeah I was assuming he was doing it over a network for some reason.  lol.

 

 

Now that I reread his post, I'm 99% sure he's not doing it over a network.  Entirely ignore my first post ;p.

[divinequran]

My friend said it cant be done because linux only supports FAT and not NTFS, he also said it can  mounted by using some other file system type and he dont know how to do it, any one did so.. please help.

[trq]

My friend said it cant be done because linux only supports FAT and not NTFS

 

Your friend is wrong. Did you look at the link steviewdr provided?

[divinequran]

yes, i read that post, It says mounting of NTFS in Ubuntu but i use Redhat 5

[tomfmason]

I use ntfsmount from ntfsprogs on debian. I am pretty sure that there is an RPM for RedHat as well. Here is a simple bash script that I wrote to make the process a bit easier:

 

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#@author:             tomfmason@gmail.com
#@app:                  microShaft
#@description:      This is a simple script that makes mounting microShaft ntfs partitions a bit easier.
#                            At some point I plan on adding more useful features to this script for doing various 
#                            things with windows and NTFS partions. Enjoy!
OPTIONS="Mount Unmount Quit"
#options
function options {
echo "Options:"
echo "       -h,--help                          displays this message"
echo "       -i                                 interactive mode" 
echo "       mount (device) (location)          mount the given device at the given location"
echo "       unmount (location)                 unmount the given location"	
}
#bad option	
function bad_option {
echo bad option
}
#mount the windows partion
function mount_windows {
ntfsmount  $1 $2  -o allow_other,show_sys_files,uid=1000
}
#unmount the windows partion
function unmount {
fusermount -u $1
}
#display the interactive menu
function interactive {
select opt in $OPTIONS; do
	if [ "$opt" = "Quit" ]; then
		echo done
		exit
	elif [ "$opt" = "Mount" ]; then
		echo Device to mount
		echo Allow input: device and list
		read DEVICE
		if [ "$DEVICE" = "list" ]; then
			fdisk -l
			echo Device to mount
			read DEVICE
		fi
		echo Directory to mount it to
		read LOCATION
		mount_windows $DEVICE $LOCATION
	elif [ "$opt" = "Unmount" ]; then
		echo Location to unmount
		read LOCATION
		unmount $LOCATION
	else
		clear
		bad_option
	fi
done
}

if [ "$1" = "-i" ]; then
interactive
elif [ "$1" = "-h" ]; then
options
elif [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then
options
elif [ "$1" = "mount" ]; then
mount_windows $2 $3
elif [ "$1" = "unmount" ]; then
unmount $2
else
options
fi

 

You will need to edit your uid in the mount_windows function.

[divinequran]

What to do with the script just copy and past it where? or i have to find the RPM for mounting it?

[tomfmason]

um... That script is just a utility script that I wrote to make it a bit easier to mount the ntfs partitions. Did you look around the link that I gave you? - http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=redhat:start