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I have a FAT 32 partition that I use for my music collection. I want both my windows ZP and Mandriva to read and write to it. Right now I have 3 GBs fo music on it that I put in through Windows. It works fine on windows. I want to the Mounting program on the Control Center and Mounted it to /Media on linux. When I go there it shows nothign and it won't write to it . How do I fix this?
All my music files are set up in an NTFS partition, done so with Partition Magic long before I had been turned onto the wisdom of Linux. My question is...can I just simply change that partition from an NTFS to a FAT*, and then go back to audio bliss? or do I need to somehow create a new (FAT*) partition and then migrate all my audio files into it?
I'm using Mandrake 10.1. I'm not very satisfied with Linux' response to my requests for music, and perhpas this is the key to a better experience (e.g., some of my files will play on Kaffeine, some will not!?)
Sorry to butt in, but it seemed a sensible place to pose this question.
You can read an NTFS partition flawlessly if it is built into your kernel. Writing to NTFS is another matter. Your likely to have issues with security protocols, and data corruption. It is best to have a fat32 partition to share between Windows and Linux. Personally, I use ext3 partition, and play music with Linux as the players and mixers are far better on my system than on a windows setup. Amarok with a Xine engine has proved flawlessly for me!!
Originally posted by aikidoist72
[B]You can read an NTFS partition flawlessly if it is built into your kernel. Writing to NTFS is another matter. Your likely to have issues with security protocols, and data corruption. It is best to have a fat32 partition to share between Windows and Linux. Personally, I use ext3 partition, and play music with Linux as the players and mixers are far better on my system than on a windows setup. Amarok with a Xine engine has proved flawlessly for me!!
He hit it perfectly.
BY the way, I don't think you can go back to FAT32 after you have installed NTFS. I could be wrong, but I believe it is that way.
root@localhost administrator]# mount /dev/hda8
mount: /dev/hda8 already mounted or /Media busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda8 is already mounted on /Media
[root@localhost administrator]#
When I go to /Media in Konqurer it says access is denied.
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