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Viewing windows partition in linux: fstab file and NTFS

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I need to view the windows partions in linux , i used to do this by adding a line in fstab file but i was using FAT as file system but now i am using ntfs and when i use the same line (with replacing VFAT with NTFS) it doesn't work so can any one help me.
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You will need to download ntfs driver build for the kernel version you are currently running. You can find rpms on **broken link removed**. But, if you upgrade the kernel. you must also install the new ntfs driver which goes with that kernel version.
 

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use the mount command...but first u shud knw wat of ur partitions r ur windows partitions by using system tools-->hardware browser-->hddrives
den use mount command with -t option like

mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/ (my hda5 is fat32 shown n windows as F:\)
/mnt/ is the folder where u will find ur windows drive contents...
 

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