DISCUSSION: Creating shared FAT32 Partition

Stregone · 05-01-2004, 03:06 PM

Just tried that, still does it.

viju · 08-22-2004, 10:15 AM

In mandrake disros I can access window files & folder but in redhat I do not see and can't access windows files & folders?

ouachiski · 09-08-2004, 09:09 PM

I am an extreme noob but from what I can gather red hat and fedora cannot acces fat32 and fat 16 partitions without a litle bit more work.

zorba4 · 09-09-2004, 06:52 AM

too bad : Mandrake do the job easily, and it seems that it's not so easy with redhat.

johnnyICON · 09-09-2004, 10:39 PM

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Originally posted by synaptical
the mkfs and mkfs.vfat commands didn't work for me ("no such file or directory," "command not found," etc.). a search showed that seems to be common with those commands. if you're having similar trouble, mkdosfs is probably what you want. i used mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdx and that worked fine. see man mkdosfs or mkdosfs -h for the other command line options.

I am trying to set-up a VFAT 32 FS but neither mkfs.vfat or mkdosfs can be found. I am installing Gentoo, using the Universal LiveCD. HELP!!!

zorba4 · 09-10-2004, 08:35 AM

When I personnally do these things, I boot under Windows, and I let Windows or PartionMagic create the partitions, and then I let Linux use them, automatically during Mandrake first install, manually (using fdisk in order to see the partition names) next time.

johnnyICON · 09-10-2004, 04:29 PM

Alright, I'll do that. Thanks.

dethree · 09-30-2004, 11:48 AM

okae, I followed teh instructions at the start of this thread. but when I mount it and access the partition then delete something like a file, the Nautilus closes itself or says that it's read only, but if I do it fast enough like within the 5 to 10 seconds I can create files and delete like I have full permission but after that it changes to read only. This happens in both Kde and Gnome, I tried this on the console mode outside of windows manager and it was working fine. All of this was done as a user mode not as root.

my fstab:

Code:

/dev/hda3        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda2        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/hdb1        /d               vfat        auto,umask=000,exec,rw  0  0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

I'm using slack 10 fresh from the cd with everything as default. and btw I was able to write to the partition before this new install. i'm still new with linux, so any advice will be appreciated.

RevenantSeraph · 01-07-2007, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by zorba4

Sorry, ElectroLunux, but this seems to be quite obvious.
Simply type mkdir /mnt/win
followed by mount /dev/hda3

Thank you both for posting this thread, it has been so helpful to a newb like me! ... I know this was written many years ago, but thank you thank you!