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OK, feeling stupid here. I have XP on one side of my laptop, Preview on the other. The only way I have found to access the XP side was to install mountpy--whose 11 kB work very well--and run it each time before I open Rox (as root).

Is there a better way? TIA.

Does the XP partition show up in fstab?

Your windows partition is probably below the "dynamic entries" line in the fstab. Move it above that line and it will be mounted on boot. I usually change the mount point to something like /home/me/windows just to avoid the navigation. This way it will mount directly in my /home.

eriefisher

Thanks. Here is my fstab:

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
# Dynamic entries below
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda5 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0

I don't understand why the XP (sda1) filesystem is not identified as ntfs...

IMHO, 7.2 Final should if possible make it easy to access a Windows partition in a dual-boot setup, similar to the way that MEPIS 7 does with kwikdisk.[/quote]

Is anyone else seing this with antiX? ie a Windows partition not showing up as ntfs?

Yes,

Here is my fstab

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
# Dynamic entries below
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sda7 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sda8 /mnt/sda8 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0

sda2 is my win xp partition

cheers
oldhoghead

yea, mine said that too, thought I had somehow changed it.. it was fat..

I changed mine

/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/storage ntfs-3g defaults 0 0