---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jim lawrence <fedorajim@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:46:44 -0500 Subject: Re: 1)Windows shared space. Where is it? To: Andre Perrotta <perrotta_tita@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:51:55 -0300, Andre Perrotta <perrotta_tita@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ! > > Or if is formatted and you always want to have it accessible, add the following to your /etc/fstab file please edit accoring to your usr name and group id and the location of the partition. create a folder in your home directory named windrive then add the following to your /etc/fstab as root **************************************************************************************** # Added 2-3-05 by jim <-- note to myself that I added it /dev/hda5 /home/jim/windrive vfat rw,nodev,uid=jim,gid=jim,noexec 0 0 -- 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. ************************************ -- 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. ************************************
