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

[Jay Mistry]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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) ?
> >
> > The Linux installs (Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.04, both i386) are on a
> > separate HD than Windows, and I boot into them from the NT bootloader.
> >
> > I was able to access (mount) the NTFS partitions of Windows XP after
> > installing ntfs-3g and ntfs-config.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jay Mistry
> >
>         The way to have them on your Ubuntu is to let /etc/fstab mount them
> to
> places you make for them. I would make a directory /windows/ and
> /fedora/ and then in fstab write the two lines that mount them there.
>
>        Fstab will look like mine:
>
> # /dev/sda5       /home       ext3     defaults        1   2
> UUID=40cb6175-3c6e-4a7f-ae57-083cccbbba63 /home  ext3 defaults 1  2
>
> karl
>
>
This is the present /etc/fstab - http://pastebin.com/f655dc7d4

Jay
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