Thanks everyone. I knew that I was forgetting something.
William
--- "Ian C. Blenke" <icblenke@nks.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
>
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