How to see Windows partitions from Linux
By default, Linux can only see his own partition(s).
But what if you need some data stored on a partition readable by Windows (wich uses an NTFS or FAT filesystem)?
Of course Linux allow you to read the content of both FAT and NTFS partitions, but you have to mount them: I’ll show you how.
A brief prologue is needed: mount a filesystem means that you virtually place the whole partition on a directory under the root directory /, and you specify what the system is allowed to do with it: you can mount a filesystem as read-only, or as writable.