On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 10:39 -0500, jim lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:36:11 -0500, Trichy pasupathy > <trichy.pasupathy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 1. I installed FC3 x64 on a separate drive in my windows XP system. At > > the time of installation, I was asked a question as to how much space > > I should assign on the drive so that Windows and linux can both share > > files. I remember to have assigned at least 20 GB. However, When I > > boot from WinXP, this drive appears completely unformatted. How do I > > find this 20 GB in both Windows and linux? > > > > My appreciation to your responses in advance. > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > Did you format the drive? if you right click the drive in windows it > sould give you a option to format it make sure you format it as fat32 > not ntfs. if you don't have that option boot into linux and format it > as fat32 or Vfat also read up on it before you try this > man fdisk > > -- > > Jim Lawrence > Registered Linux User: #376813 > ******************************************************** > When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. > It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself. > ************************************ > If you already formatted it, just do: mount /dev/hd /any_dir_name (hd is the name of your shared partition; for me is hda5) It works fine for me !
