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Changing current directory to shared filesytem using linux terminal

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I have a shared filesystem (E: in my installation of Windows 7) in which I keep my programming codes. I want to shift from Windows to Ubuntu for programming mainly because I like the linux terminal compared to alternative in Windows.

I asked this question after which I came to know that my shared filesystem is /dev/sda5. I tried to use terminal to cd to this directory but I wasn't able to do so.

I have the shared filesystem loaded and I was in /dev when I tried to change to sda5. The error was

bash: cd: sda5: Not a directory

How can I do that?

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answered 1 Year ago lassrake · Accepted Answer

You need to make it mounted in somewhere. The device is there but you have no access to it to achieve this you must use the mount command. First create a mounting point as:

sudo mkdir /mnt/shared

Then you can mount the sda5 to it:

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda5 /mnt/shared

Now, your files should be in /mnt/shared:

cd /mnt/shared

I don't encourage you to do so cause it can harm files having different end line encodings in windows / linux. What I suggest you is to create another partition and move the files you want to use on both systems there. Then stick with a multi OS IDE.