On my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system I have a partition /dev/sda6 in which Windows 10 has created two NTFS partitions. This is because I am using VirtualBox to run Windows as a guest OS on the Ubuntu host, and I have assigned /dev/sda6 to VirtualBox so that Windows can use it directly (as opposed to a file on the host that VB virtualizes as a disk). To clarify, I do not use dual-boot, just VB to run Windows as a guest OS on the Linux host.
I would like to mount the Windows partitions on the Linux host (with Windows and VB completely shut down, of course) but I can't do that as per usual, since /dev/sda6 is not an NTFS partition; Windows has made its own partitions in there.
If I point fdisk at /dev/sda6 and use the 'p' command to print the partition table, output is as follows:
fdisk /dev/sda6
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.31.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda6: 254.9 GiB, 273655995904 bytes, 534484367 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa30ee8b2
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda6p1 * 2048 1126399 1124352 549M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6p2 1126400 534480895 533354496 254.3G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
This is consistent with what Windows considers its own partition table (within /dev/sda6) to be.
So I need to mount /dev/sda6p1 and dev/sda6p2 as NTFS partitions. However, there is only a /dev/sda6 special file; /dev/sda6p1 and /dev/sda6p2 do not exist. (This makes sense since the Linux host is agnostic as to what happens within the virtualized Windows environment).
I've looked here and at the mknod manpage, since I suspect I need to create the required special file in question, but I'm not sure how to associate these special files with the respective NTFS partitions within /dev/sda6.
How do I access /dev/sda6p1 and /dev/sda6p2 to mount them?
