Identify the Windows Partition
Prior to mounting Windows share in Linux, you first have to identify in which partition you have installed Windows.This is done by running the
fdisk -l command.# fdisk -l | grep NTFS /dev/sda1 * 63 335565719 167782828+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
From the output of the command, we now know that Windows is installed in the first partition of the disk namely
/dev/sda1.Mount the Partition
Now you have to mount the partition at an appropriate location using the
mount command. Usually, it is /media or /mnt. You can choose which ever directory you want as long as the directory is empty.I chose to mount it in the
/media directory. The exact mount command to mount the Windows share in Linux is as follows.# mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media
Now you can access all your Windows files in the
/media location.Unmount the Partition
Unmounting is the opposite of mounting. Here you are de-linking the Windows partition -
/dev/sda1 from the /media directory. You use the umount command as follows.# umount /media
You must be super user (root) to mount/unmount a partition.
