accessing fat partition in linux
Hello, I installed linux mandrake and make FAT partition size 1.5GB to share files between linux and windows. I download rpm package from internet (in windows XP) and I copied that to FAT partition so I can install it under linux. Now when I boot to mandrake linux how to find that package i.e. how to acces that FAT partition?
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You should include that partition in your /etc/fstab file to mount it automatically and
have a normal user read/write to it. Adjust this line to suit your situation: Code:
/dev/hda2 /Storage vfat users,umask=1000,rw,auto 1 0 |
With the mount command (as root), e.g.:
Code:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdxy /mnt/hdxy -o rw,umask=0 To make it permanent, add a line to /etc/fstab, using the same parameters as above, e.g.: Code:
/dev/hdxy /mnt/hdxy vfat auto,umask=0 0 0 |
to list the partitions on your system login as root:
su - (include the dash) password fdisk -l (l for lama) if you have to specify a drive: fdisk -l /dev/hda (if its on your first primary disk) |
That's a lot of information at once.
Here, I made a screenshot. Can you recommend what exactly to do. I'm a bit frustrated since, I'm a linux user for a little more then 25 hours... Ups it seems I cannot attach picture... |
problem solved
Problem is solved thanks to you guys.
I modiefed that line (bold) in fstab and it worked... This is my fstab copy file that solved problem Code:
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 |
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