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whatthedeuce
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Moving files between partitions 2005-07-31 20:04:21 Reply

I've set up my old computor, so on the primary partition, I have Linux (Debian), and on the secondary, I have Windows (98). The problem is, I don't have internet access with the Linux partition (I have wireless internet that my flavor doesn't support), so I have to download everything with the Windows partition. Being the complete Linux n00b I am, I have no idea how to move files between the partitions. Will I have to resort to using floppies, or is there a better way?

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Response to Moving files between partitions 2005-07-31 20:52:43 Reply

mount the fat32 partition (windows partition) in windows, but mount it in read only so that you don't fuck anything up. So the command will be like this if you have the hard drive for the windows partition as Primary on the 2nd IDE channel...

mount -o ro /dev/hd3 /mnt/windows

If that doesn't mount the windows partition, then change the /dev/hd3 around to what device it really is...

Then from there use the copy command(cp) to get the files over