How can you do a full system scan with ClamAV on Ubuntu only?

Question

I have both Ubuntu and Windows on my computer and when I do a full system scan, it scans Windows files too (and first). Is there a way to scan all the files only on Ubuntu?

Solution

Easily you have to exclude the windows partition

clamscan -rv --exclude=/path-to-mounting-point-of-windows-files 

Or just unmount the windows disk

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Details

Determine the windows disk/partition

sudo fdisk -l | grep NTFS

for example you'll get result such as

/dev/sdc1   *        2048  1953521663   976759808    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Thus the disk/partition for windows is /dev/sdc1.

Now you should determine what is the mounting point of this partition

mount | grep /dev/sdc1 

The output would be like

/dev/sdc1 on /media/Windows type ext4 (rw)

Then the mounting point is /media/Windows

Now you can run the command again

clamscan -rv --exclude=/media/Windows

Comments

[Ron]

have you tried clamscan -r /home or clamscan -r / ?

[Rinzwind]

@ron Windows is probably mounted in /media/ or /mnt/. Umounting the windows disk would be my 1st option though

[Ron]

@Rinzwind yes, first I thought that. Then thought this will be a bit easier to scan only Ubuntu

[BigHippo]

Thanks, I found the Windows folder and it worked, but I tried unmounting the Windows disk too and the second command wouldn't work.