What we had done was split the disk at WinXP install time into a couple of partitions, a 15GB NTFS, a 20GB not formatted but partitioned space, and left the rest of the disk for Linux.
Once Windows XP SP2 was up and running then we formatted via Win XP the 20Gb partition as FAT and copied stuff over to it. I doubt very much that there isn't any FAT filesystem there. Plus HWBrowser did identify the correct NTFS partition as NTFS but the 20GB FAT partition as an unknown partition.
Cheers,
Aly.
John Best wrote:
My guess is that it is not a fat32 partition. XP I believes uses NTFS by default....AND base fedora does not support mounting ntfs partations (Based on documentation I have read/found)....
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Aly Dharshi Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 5:27 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Mount fat32 partition
Hi David,
I tried it on a stock FC2 kernel, haven't even done a yum update on that. I guess that fdisk -l would be the authoritative source of what partition things are on, will have to ask me matey to get me the results of this.
I have a /mnt/windows created, I guess that the unknown fs partition is /dev/hda5 hence I felt that :
mount -t <msdos or vfat> /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows
was appropriate !
Cheers,
Aly.
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