> > > > 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? > > > 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 > > 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 Thanks for your responses. I did not see the partition at all. I have two paritions on the Linux HDD (/dev/hdb) . /dev/hdb1 is 99mb boot (EXT2) sector and the rest on EXT2 (/dev/hdb2). So, I tried to create a partition fdisk and also Parted from Linux. Parted with mkpart seemed to do that in a flash but after that and print, it did not show any additional partitions. I tried extended, logical, primary, nothing worked. Then I made a boot image of Parted and tried from boot. This also refused to do any partitions. So I tried fdisk. This also refused. Then I went to Windows, tried to create partitions, it would let me. Not even partition magic. Now will a dell supplied fdisk partitioning disk work on this EXT2 format ? I can provide all the output from my trials if needed. Any suggestions on how I should create a new partition? PS: Elsewhere, I read that Parted does not work on FC. -Regards, Trichy.
