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Chapter 11 . Running KNOPPIX 359 If the command completes quietly or if it says not mounted, you are fine. If it says device is busy, there is still a shell or folder window that is holding that partition open. Before you can continue, you must close whatever is holding the partition open and make sure the umount completes. 5. Next, you need to mount the partition so it is writable. Here s how: # mount -orw /dev/hda2 At this point you can open the folder to the partition (hda2 in our example) or open a shell and write to that directory (/mnt/hda2 and any subdirectories). To make that change permanent (in the KNOPPIX sense), you need to change the /etc/fstab to add rw to the entry for the partition so it is mounted read/write by default. Again, with the example of /dev/hda2, an entry in /etc/fstab to mount that partition read/write could look as follows: /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0 With that change, simply typing mount /dev/hda2 mounts the directory with read/write permissions. You can save that change permanently, as described in the Keeping Your KNOPPIX Configuration section later in this chapter. Mounting Windows Partitions for Writing Provided your partitions are properly detected, mounting Windows partitions is no different than mounting Linux partitions. For Windows file system types FAT and VFAT, there should be no problem mounting and writing to those file systems. For NTFS file systems, there are a few things you should consider before writing to them. Earlier versions of KNOPPIX allowed you to download a feature called Captive NTFS. With Captive NTFS, you could use native Windows drivers to access NTFS partitions from KNOPPIX. This was considered to be reliable enough that you could write to NTFS partitions without much fear of corruption. The current version of KNOPPIX uses drivers from the Linux-NTFS Project (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net) to provide support for accessing NTFS file systems from Linux. The advantage of using Linux-NTFS is that NTFS partitions can be mounted and used just like any other Linux file system. In other words, you don t need Windows drivers. The down side is that writing to NTFS partitions using Linux-NTFS is considered unreliable and could cause corruption to your NTFS partition. So, I recommend you not try to write to an NTFS file system from KNOPPIX, but feel free to read from NTFS during a KNOPPIX session. Creating a Persistent Home Directory If you are going to use the computer more than once with KNOPPIX (or if you just want more storage space for files than your computer has available in RAM) you
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