Partition visible to both XP and Fedora?
Ankush Grover
ankush174 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 08:51:15 UTC 2005
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:32:33 -0000, Irving, Dave
<Dave.Irving at logicacmg.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday I managed to get my new laptop dual-booted with Fedora 3 and
> XP.
> Something I've found very quickly is that I'd like to be able to share
> files between the two. I've got CD writer on my laptop, so I guess two
> easy options are:
> - use CD
> - get a memory stick
>
> However, Im wondering if its possible to create a partition which can be
> mounted by both XP and Linux. Is this possible / easy?
Hey,
Create one fat parition in your windows Xp and from the linux you can
put the files.Like suppose u have one partition fat d:\ in windows xp.
You can mount that partition in linux like this
mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/win
but u need to know where is ur fat partition is residing in this
example i have taken /dev/hda 2.
You can use fdisk -l /dev/hda (if this is ur primary hdd )
for primary slave /dev/hdb
for secondary master /dev/hdc
for secondary slave /de/hdd
These entries are for ide hard disks.
then you will see after giving fdisk -l /dev/hd? at the command prompt
(press m for help) press p
you will all the partition of this hard drive find the hard drive on
which your fat partition resides.
you see the command
mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/win
make sure what ever mount point your giving for /dev/hda should exist
in this win folder or directory under /mnt should exist.
For permanent entry in the /etc/fstab so that you need to manually
mount the partition do this
/dev/hd? /mnt/win vfat defaults 0 0
replace ? with a b c or d and 1 or 2 or 3
like hda1 or 2
Please don't mount any ntfs partition for writing ,as it is dangerous
doing that can crash ur linux or windows.
Regards
Ankush
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