Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Friend installed Linux - then ripped out WindowsXP: He needs help ??

[Jim Little <jlittle [ at ] orderedBits [ dot ] com>]

Quoth Martin Hicks:

> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:38:24PM -0400, William Case wrote:
> > 
> > mount -t vfat [or msdos] /mnt/windows /dev/hdc  can't mount disk; error
> > says file system unrecognized.
> 
> your arguments are backwards.
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows

Good point, might as well make it read-only also, thus:

mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows

Jim