In this example, the root (/) and boot (/boot) hard disk partitions are mounted at
boot time, along with the /dev/pts, /dev/shm, /dev/sys, /dev/shm, and /proc file systems
(which are not associated with particular storage devices). The CD drive (/dev/cdrom) and floppy
disk (/dev/fd0) drives are not mounted at boot time. Definitions are put in the fstab file for
floppy and CD drives so that they can be mounted in the future (as described later).
I also added one line for /dev/sda1, which enables me to mount the Windows (vfat) partition on
my computer so I don??™t have to always boot Windows to get at the files on my Windows partition.
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Most Windows systems today use the NTFS file system. Support for this system, however,
is not delivered with every Linux system. NTFS support was added to the Fedora
repository in Fedora 7 with the ntfs-3g package. Other NTFS support is available from the Linux-NTFS
project (www.linux-ntfs.org/).
If your computer is configured to dual boot Linux and Windows, you can mount your Windows file
system to make it available in Linux. To access your Windows partition, you must first create the
mount point (in this example, by typing mkdir /mnt/win). Then you can mount it when you choose
by typing (as root) mount /mnt/win.
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