i have an Ubntu machine with 30GB space and need to create a folder in "/" as "/server". I have 50GB space in NTFS(windows) . i want to join this 50GB to linux how can i merge these two.
5 Answers
You wish to mount the NTFS partition to /server?
Assuming your 50GB drive is /dev/sdb1:
sudo -i
(mounting should be done as root)
cd /
(you want it in /server)
mkdir server
(mount points must exist)
mount /dev/sdb1 -t NTFS /server
(mount...this may error out.)
This will not persist across reboots. You will need to edit /etc/fstab
to do so. Make a backup of that file before you continue.
Both are different file systems. So cant merge it. You can mount windows partitions to linux and by some windows softwares can open linux partitions to windows.
as stated by Kumar P you cannot merge them because those two are on different filesystems: anyway you could be interested in LVM for the next time.
Regards
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"merge" could mean joining two partitions to a single filesystem, as LVM allows, or it could mean making the space available somewhere in the filesystem tree (eg, a simple mount). it's not clear enough what the OP wants to accomplish to guess. Jan 23, 2010 at 17:06
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I supposed he wants to joint 'em because he tolds "i want to join this 50GB to linux": anyway a little more contributes from the OP are welcome! :D– dag729Jan 23, 2010 at 17:21
If you mean by 'merge' to use the harddisk space in Linux, may I suggest something: Reformat the NTFS partition with ext3/4 or any other filesystem of your choice, and mount it in the var folder /var/server
as server folder. This would have the advantage that no matter how many stuff ends up in your server folder, it will never effect the system.
You should ble able to install ntfs-3g, load the FUSE module to load on boot and basically follow the same steps outlined above but mount with something like
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/YOURDRIVE /your/mount/point
Then add something like this to fstab
/dev/YOURDRIVE /your/mount/point ntfs-3g silent,umask=0002,utf8=true
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Ubuntu also seems to have a short tutorial and some documentation about settings up NTFS-3g to read/write to NTFS drives.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G