[lug] mount NTFS

[Tony Dyson]

Good adavice. Stick to SMB mounts. When you installed VMWare, did it 
offer you an option to enable access to the local file system? VMWare 
for Linux does; I haven't used the Windows version.

There's a handy tool at http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ for quickly 
finding out what SMB shares you can "see" on your network.

Mr Viggy wrote:
> Read only is good, because AFAIK, NTFS write is still experimental.
> 
> Now, as far as VMWare goes, depending on how you setup your VMWare 
> "disk" you can't directly mount your hard drive.  For example, if you 
> setup a "virtual disk" on your NTFS drive, you need to treat your RH 
> VMWare installation as a seperate machine on your network.  So, in order 
> to mount your NTFS file system, you actually need to use Samba, or the 
> 'smbfs' filesystem.  Which is actually better!  Why?  Because, like I 
> said, NTFS write is still experimental and can screw up your disk!
> 
> OTOH, if you install RH on the same hard drive as your Windows OS, but 
> you boot directly into it, you would need to use the NTFS file system to 
> mount it; because the file system is on the same harddrive as the OS.
> 
> Think of VMWare's virtual disk as if it were a completely different 
> system on a network connected to your host system.
> 
> So, to make a long story short, check out Samba, and the smbfs file system.
> 
> Viggy
> 
> 
> luke p wrote:
> 
>> How do I mount an NTFS partition in RH 7.3? Is there something unique 
>> I need to set up before I can just use the mount command? Also, can it 
>> be mounted when its active, i.e. I'm in Windows (XP) already, using 
>> VMware to boot Linux (on a dual boot machine) so from within Linux 
>> under Vmware mount the NTFS partition? (At most I only need to have 
>> read ability).
>>
>> Thanks
>> Luke