File transfers between linux and windows?

[Eric Evans]

Hi,

Thanks so much for your reply.

>mount -t vfat /dev/hd'whatever' /mnt/'some-name'

I'm a little bit confused about this though.  How do you know what the 
'some-name' is?  Thanks...

Eric


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Evans [mailto:eje4 at cornell.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:04 PM
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: File transfers between linux and windows?
>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>On a dual-OS PC that has both Windows and RH Linux, what's the best way to
>transfer files from the Windows side to the Linux side or vice versa?  I
>thought I heard somewhere that if you create a third partition that is FAT,
>that you could access that partition from either the Windows and Linux
>partitions, so you could use this third partition as a way to transfer
>files back and forth.  Is there any truth to this?  If so, how do you go
>about accessing this FAT partition from Linux?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Eric
>
>
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