ok, i have a harddrive and i want to partiton it as fat do that windows can also see it. the hd is hdb as far as i no, now can someone tell me how to partition it as fat w/e and then mount it?

Use 'mkdosfs' to create a fat32 filesystem. `man mkdosfs` will give you more information, but basic usage is just `mkdosfs /dev/hdb1`.

You'll only be able to use it after you've created a (or a few) partitions on your hard drive. Use fdisk or cfdisk to do that (cfdisk is the slightly more intuitive version).

Once you have a) a partition and b) formatted it, you can mount it with the 'mount' command. Create a directory, say /mnt/dos, and then mount the partition with `mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos`.
The mount man page can help ya out here, also.

Edit: I think that msdos is the correct filesystem indicator for mount...try auto if that doesn't work.

thanks alot, i had done all of that, im glad you edited it because it was the auto fs i was missing

Cool, glad I remembered it then

Cheers