I knew one or two things about Linux and the filesystem it uses...It's not FAT!
like it's not too obvious how to get to the different drives you've placed on your system. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm a windoze nerd (still is, has'nt convinced me just yet), that means, I have a couple of NTFS drives around somewhere. They are 'floating' around when it comes to Linux, because they are 'persona non grata' if you don't do nothing, to get them onboard.
Thats where 'mount' comes in handy, and "what the hell is mount?" you ask! A little tricky for me to explain, let's just say "it's a way to give you access, to your drives'.
But the tricky part, is to give the right person the rights to 'read-access' to your NTFS drive, never 'write'(it's not supported yet I hear). The easier way is to put this 'mounting' into the file that handles all mounting at startup. It's called 'fstab' and resides under the folder '/etc'. To mount your NTFS partitioned drive you would do something like (this gets a little technical I know...)
/dev/hda1 /media/xp ntfs ro,umask=000 0 0
Will I try to explain that? No! ...I will just tell you that the tricky part is where it says 'umask=000'(thats 3 zeros) and it means, give everybody readOnly rights to this drive... Enough of that technical stuff, damn I'm getting 'nerdy' again...
Oh well....
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