When you have more then one operating systems installed on your computer, then it is useful to access the partitions from both systems. This is a simple step-by-step guide on how to access windows partitions from linux.

NTFS allows only read-only access whereas FAT32 allows both read and write access.

1. Open konsole and make a directory where the partition can be mounted. To do so, code the following:

   sudo mkdir /media/windows

2. Next, code the following to mount an NTFS Windows Partition and allow read-only access:

   sudo mount /dev/hdaX /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o ro,umask=0222

3. If the Windows partition uses FAT32, then allow read-write access to the partition:

   sudo mount /dev/hdaX /media/windows/ -t vfat -o umask=0000

where /dev/hdaX is the device name of your partition

If you want to unmount the partition then code:

sudo umount /media/windows/

To mount on bootup code the following:

1. sudo kate /etc/fstab

2. Add the following to the file for NTFS:

/dev/hdaX /media/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

and for FAT32

/dev/hdaX /media/windows vfat umask=0000 0 0

where

/dev/hdaX is the device of your partition.

To remount without rebooting just code:

sudo mount -a