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Originally Posted by W0bbles
I am trying to get a shared filesystem working using Windows XP and Linux (Slack 10.2) with two seperate hard drives.
The first hard drive would have a dual boot of Linux and Windows.
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Do you mean that you intend to repartition the XP hard drive and install Linux on it, too? This will work if you have enough free space on the XP drive, but you'll need to be careful contracting the NTFS file system on the XP drive. I
strongly recommend a complete backup of the XP drive before proceeding. In fact, once you have a good backup (including the registry), the easy way to repartition the XP drive would be to use the XP installation tools to do the repartition, leaving the Linux space free and unformatted, and then restore the XP system from the backup to the (now smaller) partition.
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The second would be the filesystem that I would want shared. The drive already has data on it as well in FAT32 format, do I run a risk of having it wiped clean?
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No, not unless you want to install your Linux system on the FAT32 drive.
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I know that XP will just see the drive automatically. I was curious to whether during installation of Linux when I add the hard drive, if I could mount the drive to /home/me or just /home?
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You might be able do either, but
/home/me is cleaner. Note, however, that making it
/home/anything will tell the istallation to
create the home strucure there, which
does run the risk that data on the drive will be lost. In other words, if you tell the install to use
/dev/hdb for
anything, you have told it to, at a minimum, create a Linux file system on that device, and, perhaps, to reformat it.
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Do I have to edit /etc/fstab?
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No, but it makes things easier.
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What if I want to add this hard drive after Linux has already been installed (now I know I have to edit /etc/fstab if I want it to boot on startup), can I still mount it to a specific dir?
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Sure, just issue the
mount command for the device as root. Note that this scenario presupposes that you have a valid
/home file system on your boot device,
/dev/hda3 if you repartitioned as suggested above. (
/boot would be on
dev/hda2)
