On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:57, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote:
> I have partioned my hard disk and have made my system dual boot with Win
> Xp in one partion and RH 7.3 in another. I would like to read XP partition
> from linux. I tried adding an entry in  /etc/fstab with hpfs as the
> filesystem type and it didnt work. Is there a way to read the Win XP
> partion.

Not sure if Linux can read WinXP partitions, but you should try mounting
it as NTFS rather than HPFS.  HPFS is the filesystem for OS/2, while
NTFS is for WinNT and descendants.  They were the same thing at some
point, but that was a long time ago..

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