Accessing a FAT partition? or NTFS?
 

Hi, guys. I think this questions has been asked many times. I have three partitons in my PC: Win2000, WinXP and Fedora Core 1. All I want to do is access some files from the Win patitions so I can modify them in Fedora and save them back into the Win partitions(these are some images I want to modify using the Gimp). I created a small partition(FAT32), so I could put my files on this partition when working with Windows and the access them in Fedora. I'm no able to see this partition from Fedora. How can I mount this FAT32 partition or could I mount the NTFS??
What would be a simpler solution??

Thanks guys...

edit /etc/fstab
mount fat32 as type vfat, ntfs as type ntfs.

vfat is r/w, ntfs is (yes, even in kernel 2.6) ro

then they'll auto-mount on boot, but if you don't want to wait that long, you can use the 'mount' command.

Well...
 

Your partition should already be detected by Linux. You should see it in the /dev directory. It should be named something like HDxx in /dev. In my case HDC6 is my 2nd NTFS partition witch contains " My documents" in XP. It is called win_d in my /mnt directory.

I can browse it an copy from it. I also have fat32 partitions witch I can read and wrtie to from both Linux and Windows.

To manualy mount them if they are not already there, create a directory for your fat32 partition in /mnt or wherever you like. Use a simple name ,short, with no spaces.

After that open a console, type su ,enter your root password and the enter the following command:

mount -t vfat /dev/YourDrive /mnt/NewDirectory.

You should then be able to go to your new directory and see the files on the mounted partititon.

drive letter D equal hdxx?
 

So friends what is the equivalent of drive D in win. It is hda1??

Thanks...

You have to go in /mnt and browse for yourself. You will recognize your files probably in /mnt/win_c2 like me.

For me win_c, win_c2, etc are mounted on drive hdc.

Re: drive letter D equal hdxx?
 

If you created the d drive using windows it is probably /dev/hda5 and assuming you only have one disk drive installed in your system and its hda. To verify my assumption log in as root and enter the following command in a console window:

fdisk -l (that is a small L)

Fedora does not include NTFS support in its default kernel. To add support without recompiling the kernel get the RPM from:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

And yes these are very common questions. You can seach this website for additional help in mounting the FAT32 and NTFS partitions. I do not think that Fedora automatically configures windows partitions like Mandrake.