Viewing Files from the Windows
Side of Your Computer
When you install openSUSE on a computer that already
has some form of Windows running on it, YaST will offer
to run the two operating systems side by side. Linux will
then repartition the computer, and the GRUB bootloader
adds Windows to its list of boot options.
In this instance, openSUSE also creates a /windows directory to make all Windows files
accessible to you directly in Linux. Depending on the file systems you are using on either
side of your computer, you may not even notice a difference in how a file behaves.
MS-DOS and all versions of Windows up to the introduction of Windows NT ran on the
File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. All Linux file systems (ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS,
and JFS) fully support FAT. That is, you can open files from a FAT formatted volume, edit
them, and save them either on the Linux volume or back to the FAT formatted volume. If
you edit a Windows file in Linux and save it back to the same directory, you can open
that file again in Windows.
The main reason this works so well is that FAT is not a permission-based file system.
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