Can't see my Windows partition from within applications

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
> 
> 	I have a two physical disk drives. On one of them is where I keep my
> Windows NE* partition. It is a FAT 32 format, and I have no trouble
> accessing files and reading and writing to the drive from within
> Gnome/Nautilus.
> 
So, your windows partition is mounted.
> 	However, if I try to access the files from within an application, for
> example XMMS, I can get as far down as the root directory on my
> Linux/Ubuntu drive, but I can not see any other drives.
> 
> 	I thought perhaps I would find my Windows drive within /mnt/, but that
> directory is empty.
> 
May be you are looking in the wrong place. Try "cat /etc/mtab" in a 
terminal, this will display details about mounted partions. My /etc/mtab is:
...
/dev/hdc5 /boot ext3 rw,noatime,commit=600 0 0
/dev/mapper/linux_part-home /home ext3 rw,noatime,commit=600 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/NTFS ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc2 /mnt/FAT vfat rw,nodev,umask=000,shortname=mixed 0 0
/dev /.dev unknown rw,bind 0 0
...

as you can see my FAT partition is loaded in /mnt/FAT.
> 	How do I access the files on my Windows partition from within an
> application?
> 
> 
> *Windows NE = Windows Necessary Evil. I'd get rid of it if I didn't have
> certain programs needed for work.
> 
> --
> Dave M G
> 
>