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HI guys
I am trying to access my windows partition but it is not visible in the fstab. It only displays my home partition and root partition. I am pretty sure that i haven't removed the windows partition. I will also need to somehow boot it through the grub efi bootloader but for now i need to access it. I have installed ntfs-3g
ANy ideas?
Last edited by shak (2019-07-17 03:55:45)
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You may have to mount it manually, but let's check if linux sees it first.
post the output of lsblk -f .
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You may have to mount it manually, but let's check if linux sees it first.
post the output of lsblk -f .
Thanks
Here is the output
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda
|-sda1
| ntfs Recovery
| FE6E21586E210ACB
|-sda2
| vfat 0623-0B41
|-sda3
|
|-sda4
| ntfs AE242C6D242C3AAB
|-sda5
| vfat 1AC1-C5A6
|-sda6
| ext4 3c66006e-4992-4fc8-bbe6-be736ebee0bb 4.2G 52% /
`-sda7
ext4 543dc037-b3e8-4402-981c-6a8794a3b851 83.2G 1% /home
sdb
`-sdb1
ntfs B84ED71D4ED6D36C
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What do you mean it's "not visible in fstab" ? fstab is a file you edit to add entries as you need them, so add an entry.
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Some clarification might help.
Shak, when you ran genfstab during installation it added mounted devices/partitions to /etc/fstab .
Your ntfs partitions were probably not mounted at that time, so were not added.
One solution is to mount them manually, then run genfstab again .
A better solution is to add your own entries for these partitions manually to fstab.
You can use windows Disk Manager[1] to figure out which partition holds the data you want to access .
Re-read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G to understand what you need to add to fstab.
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If you can't find the windows Disk Manager applet , use CTRL+r and search for Diskmgmt.msc
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Some clarification might help.
Shak, when you ran genfstab during installation it added mounted devices/partitions to /etc/fstab .
Your ntfs partitions were probably not mounted at that time, so were not added.One solution is to mount them manually, then run genfstab again .
A better solution is to add your own entries for these partitions manually to fstab.You can use windows Disk Manager[1] to figure out which partition holds the data you want to access .
Re-read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G to understand what you need to add to fstab.
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If you can't find the windows Disk Manager applet , use CTRL+r and search for Diskmgmt.msc
Thanks for the reply. I have successfully mounted the windows parition. Now i just need to edit the grub efi menu to add it on boot
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Thanks for the reply. I have successfully mounted the windows parition. Now i just need to edit the grub efi menu to add it on boot
The place to do that is /etc/fstab. The grub environment is most definitely not. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab
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shak wrote:Thanks for the reply. I have successfully mounted the windows parition. Now i just need to edit the grub efi menu to add it on boot
The place to do that is /etc/fstab. The grub environment is most definitely not. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab
Yes my mistake. I meant to add it to the bootloader in order to dual boot:)
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