Under Linux you can easily use your Windows partitions,just have to follow some steps.In Linux there is a file found default called /etc/fstab which is a part of system configuration./etc/fstab is commonly used by the command ‘mount’ ,which reads fstab to mount the specified device or partitions.Linux distributions like Ubuntu can mount partitions of the windows automatically since which is included in /etc/fstab.In all the Linux distributions we can do this manually in four or five steps.
How to mount: Using the following steps you will be able to mount partitions or drives (windows partitions or even removable media like floppy,CD-ROM etc) easily under your Linux.
1.Create a directory under Linux using mkdir e.g.: mkdir /mnt/windows
2.Now to see the disk partitions use the command fdisk -l which will list you all the partitions with the file system type.
3.In this step we can mount the required windows partitions on the created directory using a command mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
3.Now make your current directory as windows you can easily do this by using a command cd /mnt/windows
4.your windows files are now ready to use under Linux,just type “ls /mnt/windows” command to see the those files and make use of it.
5. To automate this process that is to make Linux mount these partitions at boot time, we can add these in the /etc/fstab file. (have to login as root to edit it)
open /etc/fstab, and add a line like,
/dev/hda1 /mnt/C auto defaults 0 0
Now give the command ‘mount -a‘ , it will mount all partitions which we have given in the /etc/fstab file.
Also, from next time, every time you restart your computer, Linux will automatically mount all partitions or devices which we have specified in the fstab file.
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