File transfers between linux and windows?

[HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER]

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Eric Evans wrote:
> 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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