Howto mount windows partition onto ubuntu Linux

Post date: 03-May-2010 06:37:31

Q. How do I mount NTFS or FAT paritions under ubuntu Linux?

A. You can mount NTFS or FAT windows partition with mount command.

=> Click on Applications

=> Select Accessories

=> Select Terminal

=> Now terminal window will be on screen.

First you need to create directory where you can attach windows partition using mount command (for example /media/c for C:):

# sudo mkdir -p /media/c

Now find out list of partition (click on System > Administration > Disks ) or use following command:

# sudo fdisk -l

Output:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 86 NTFS /dev/hdb2 2433 2554 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdb3 2555 6202 29302560 83 Linux

As you see /dev/hdb1 is NTFS partition. Now type following command:

# sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/hdb1 /media/c

To unmount Windows NTFS partition type command:

# sudo umount /media/c

To mount FAT partition type command:

# sudo mkdir -p /media/d

# sudo mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000 /dev/hda1 /media/d

To unmount Windows FAT (mounted at /media/d) partition type command:

# sudo umount /media/d

Where,

• -t : Specify file system type (such as NTFS or FAT)

• umask=VALUE: Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that are not present). The default is the umask of the current process. The value is given in octal.

• iocharset=VALUE: Character set to use for converting between 8 bit characters and 16 bit Unicode characters. The default is iso8859-1. Long filenames are stored on disk in Unicode format.