1. First find out the windows partition by using fdisk -l command.

Ex :
j@j-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for j:

Partition table entries are not in disk order


2. Windows partitions are those with HPFS/NTFS or Fat option under Sytem in the above output.

Mine is /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3

3. Make a folder in your linux system where you want to mount the windows partitions

Ex :

j@j-laptop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/c
j@j-laptop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/d


You can change ‘ /media/c ‘ and ‘/media/d ‘ to any folder of your choice.

4. Copy paste this shell script into a text file and save in your home folder. Name the text file as drive
Dont forget to replace ‘ /dev/sda1 ‘ ‘ /media/c ‘ and ‘ /dev/sda3 ‘ ‘ /media/d ‘ with the corresponding folders of your system. If there are more than two partitions you can add it along with it as next mount or unmount command.


#!/bin/bash
#j
USAGE="Usage : $0 [-m|-u]"

case "$1" in
-m)
echo "mounting drives "
mount -t ntfs -o umask=022 /dev/sda1 /media/c
mount -t ntfs -o umask=022 /dev/sda3 /media/d
;;
-u)
echo "unmounting "
umount /media/c
umount /media/d
;;
*) echo "$USAGE"
exit 0
;;
esac


5. Change the permission of the drive file.
chmod a+x ./drive

6. Thats it now you are done!. You can now mount the partitions by just typing sudo ./drive -m.
And you can unmount these drives by typing ./drive -u.

Hope this helps

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