On Thursday 06 February 2003 20:34, William Coulter wrote:
> I am trying to mount a fat32 partition. I login as root and I type
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/window
>
> I get an error message of /mnt/window does not exist
Try "mkdir /mnt/window" and try again. The mountpoint must exist before you
can mount something there.
> I know that the partition is there. I have data on it that is both linux
> and winblow.
Your /dev/hda2 fat32 filesystem is probably fine.
> On a side note, I saw a section in the man pages on mount that talks about
> ntfs partitions. It said that I could mount it. I have read that it is
> only "read only " but I didn't see anything like that.
NTFS support in the current linux kernel is ok for reading, but may be unsafe
for writing (thus the experimental warnings). The writing support has
improved over time, but is not considered 100% safe.
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