I have dual boot, NT4 & red hat. each in own partition. I made a new FAT32 partition, that can be visibly from both OS.
Now is not visibly from linux, only from NT.
How can I mount this partition in linux?
M.

In linux, use cfdisk /dev/hd[a-z] to determine which partition is.

To mount it, type, as root:

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mount -t vfat /dev/hd[a-z][1-9] /mount/vfat/
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or use whatever mount point you have.

Hope that helps,

Rhys

And if you don't want to mount the vfat partition manually after every boot then add an entry to /etc/fstab.

Check manpages for mount and fstab:

man mount
man 5 fstab

in order to have read-write access from linux add 'umask=000' to the fstab parameters.

Im sorry, I am VERY new to linux. Could someone that knows what they are doing take the strings the three people posted and combine them into 1 single command line for me?

To mount a fat 32 device, read my prior post.

To do this automatically each time Linux boots, you must add it to /etc/fstab. This should be similar to
Type man fstab or google for fstab to get a more in-depth discussion of this.

Rhys

make that 'defaults,umask=000' if you want to have full read write access.

Is that enough detail?

Assuming /dev/hda8 is your FAT32 partition and you have made a directory named /mnt/storage.

mount -t vfat -o rw,umask=000 /dev/hda8 /mnt/storage

Th option -o rw and umask just make sure either one will give you write access. If you are using PAM, you may have to chmod the directory /mnt/storage after you have mount it. The option -t vfat uses the vfat module to be used for mounting a FAT32 partition.

The similar syntax as above can be used in /etc/fstab, so Linux can automaticlly mount it. The syntax just need to be change slightly.

/dev/hda8 /mnt/storage vfat rw,umask=000 0 0

I recommend to not include FAT32 partitions when using the dump command for backups, so that is why I specify 0. Also I recommend not running fsck on FAT32 because it is not reliable when there are cross-link clusters and other problems that Microsoft's utility finds which unfortunately does a better job when scanning and fixing.

BTW, RTFM!