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If u want to write to a fat partition,first u hav to mount it.This u can add it in the /etc/fstab.First find ur fat partition(using fdisk -l).If /dev/hda1 is ur fat partition
add the following to /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /mnt/Windos vfat users 0 0
create a directory named "windows" (as u wish) under /mnt.....also you can change the permissions by changing the 4th field (here "users") as mentioned by BOBY.
I have a new problem. I wrote about 8 gigs to my FAT32 partition in root. Then I boot into windows and it does not read anything that I wrote. It says that it is 34k in size.
fat32 only supports file with a maximum size of 2 GB,
maybe that's why it behaves so strange...
(write problem seems fixed by the fstab line, this was my idea, too)
If you can't read what you wrote on Linux with Windows, you may also want to run a check on the FAT32 partition, as I only have that problem when there are errors on it.
Originally posted by doc.nice fat32 only supports file with a maximum size of 2 GB,
There is no file over 2GB.
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Originally posted by racingnut24 If you can't read what you wrote on Linux with Windows, you may also want to run a check on the FAT32 partition, as I only have that problem when there are errors on it.
How would I do that? When I partitioned and reformatted it with bootit, it said there were no errors on the drive. But that could have easily changed.
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