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shak

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[SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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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shak

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Re: [SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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                                    

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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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shak

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Re: [SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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.

[1]
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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Re: [SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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

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Re: [SOLVED]Windows partition not visible in fstab

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:)