Can't see my Windows partition from within applications

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

'Forum Post wrote:
> What programs do you need for work, there is probably a sizeable
> alternative or you can run them under wine, id be willing to bet. 
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> Anyway, youll need to make an entry into /etc/fstab for that disk or
> part your trying to access. 
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> /dev/hdx      /media/windows  xxxx    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0
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> where hdx is the signifier of yoru disk, /media/windows is the
> directory that partition or disc will be mounted on, and xxxx is the
> filesystem type , fat32, ntfs, ext3 or whatever......
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BTW, nls=utf8 is not a recommended for FAT partitions. If you add it, 
you get warning during startup saying that "UTF8 is not recommended as 
it makes the file system case sensitive". My /etc/fstab entry is like this:

/dev/hdc2                     /mnt/FAT        vfat 
defaults,user,suid,umask=000,shortname=mixed 0  0

-- Saru