Access Windows and MacOS drives

Submitted by Friedrich on Fri, 2005-08-26 18:33.

There is a neat utility out there, which is capable of searching for available HFS+, NTFS and FAT32 partitions. It creates mount points for them and adds them to /etc/fstab, so they will be mounted everytime you boot.

Instructions for use:
- Download and save this file on your local hard drive as winmac_fstab
- Open a terminal and type "sudo bash winmac_fstab"
- If sudo asks for a password, use your own password
- Your windows and mac partitions will now be mounted everytime
you boot. You can delete this script now if you like (with "rm winmac_fstab")

There also exists a similar script for Samba network shares (the ones Windows uses). Download the script here and install it as above.
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Submitted by iGNORED on Mon, 2006-09-11 11:25.

The link doesn't work... (the one you're supposed to download)  -- Please fix! And what can i do with a Dual Boot?


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Google it?
Submitted by tvilberg on Mon, 2006-09-25 21:01.

I Googled the file name and got a BUNCH of hits. Here is the first, which seems to be the script mentioned in the original posting.

http://smorgasbord.net/files/winmac_fstab

Enjoy...

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Works but is it necessary?
Submitted by meta4r on Thu, 2006-09-28 05:03.

My ntfs partition was already mounted (read only) on a standard Dapper installation.

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Not as lucky
Submitted by rillip on Wed, 2007-02-14 20:01.

I'll probably try this out once I get my xerver running again, my Win 2k created ntfs partition appears in the media list but isn't mounted and I've not had much luck getting it to do so.

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