Access to Linux (ext3) & Windows (FAT32) partitions (from Ubuntu 9.04)

[Liam Proven]

2009/8/10 Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com>:
> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 09:54 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
>> On a new install of Ubuntu 9.04 on a home desktop PC, how can one
>> enable access to Windows XP (FAT32) and Fedora 10 (ext3) partitions
>> from within Ubuntu (using GNOME 2.26 desktop) ?
>
> for FAT32
> sudo mount -t cifs /dev/[fat32 partition] /mnt/[some dir]

Er, no!

"cifs" is the incorrect filesystem type here. Fred, I am not sure why
you picked CIFS here, even - it's Microsoft marketingspeak for the SMB
network sharing protocol. A typo or slip? You are perhaps getting
confused with the syntax to mount a remote Windows shared volume,
which is

mount -t smbfs -o username=[username] password=[password] //[address
of server]/[name of share] [mount point]

To mount a FAT32 disk, the syntax is:

mount -t vfat [path to partition device] [mount point]

To mount an NTFS disk, the syntax is something like:
mount -t ntfs-3g [path to partition device] [mount point]

(Those commands from memory - I do not have Ubuntu on this PC & right
now I'm in XP, not Crunchbang or Debian, which it does have.)

But often, in my experience, you can omit the FS type and the kernel
will work it out for itself.

However, on Ubuntu or another GNOME system, any Windows partitions
should show up on the GNOME Places menu, under "Computer". Just click
on Computer, look for the partitions by name - unless you're sloppy on
Windows and don't give your partitions meaningful names - in which
case, you'll have to guess by size.



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