I hit ENTER too soon...
Win NT,2K, and XP all support VFAT as a base file system as well. I don't know anyone
who runs VFAT outside of Win98, but I am sure there are a few. Anyway, the msdos and vfat
flags are valid for those mounts as well. Just to clarify.
One caveat. In the past I have attempted to use VFAT under all three of these OS's in order to
do some testing with very large file manipulation (video editing as one test) and the results
were spectacularly bad. I lost 3 partitions (NTFS and VFAT) doing simple things like copy,
multiple writes, etc. I don't recommend using VFAT under these circumstances as it blows out
like a candle at first wind. Then you get to reload the partition and start over. NTFS does the
same thing, but less often. YMMV.
...Paul
At 08:23 AM 11/26/2003, Men in grey suits forced Paul Penrod to type:
Christopher,
Are you sure about this?
I have NTFS partitions on shared drives and I have to use mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs /mnt/windows. If the
paritions are from Windows 95/98/ME then I can see using vfat, msdos as the modifier and having it
work.
Win2K,XP,NT requires the loading of the NTFS driver for RedHat 9.0 (which RedHat never provided and SuSE
and Mandrake do). I have not loaded the NTFS drivers with FC1 yet. The ones I have strongly suggest
that you do not write to the NTFS partitions with them as that code is not stable.
...Paul
At 07:30 AM 11/26/2003, Men in grey suits forced Christophe Le Guern to type:On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:24:00 -0600 Russ Edwards <redwards@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have my laptop dual booting. For my work I need Windows about 1% of > the time. How can I dump some files onto my windows partition so that I > can back them up?
hello,
you can mount the windows filesystem
as root: # mkdir /mnt/windows/ # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/
as long as /dev/hda1 is your windows partition of course you can also put this in /etc/fstab later
christophe
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