Windows shared space. Where is it?

[jim lawrence]

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From: jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:46:44 -0500
Subject: Re: 1)Windows shared space. Where is it?
To: Andre Perrotta <perrotta_tita at bluebottle.com>


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:51:55 -0300, Andre Perrotta
<perrotta_tita at bluebottle.com> 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 at gmail.com> 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.
> > >
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> > 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
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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.
************************************


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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.
************************************