linux not recognizing spare partition
just got finished setting up the dual boot with both windows and ubuntu. i gave windows 10G and linux 12G (2g for swap) and the rest i wanted to use for storing media files that both systems could use. i formatted it in fat32, windows recognizes it, but ubuntu only recognizes the windows drive and its own file system. shoudl i reformat in a different format that both can read, what is that?
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You have to set up the mounting in Linux.
Here is the basic drill: open a terminal, and enter "sudo fdisk -l" This give you the partition IDs. Let's assume that the fat32 partition is /dev/hda3. "cd /mnt ; ls" to see if a mount point is already setup. If it is, you may be able to mount using "mount mountpointname". Worst case, you would create a mountpoint with "mkdir", and then: "mount /dev/hda3 mountpointname" The have the partition mount automatically, you need to create (or edit) an entry in /etc/fstab. "man mount" and "man fstab" for more details. |
this is what i see, im not sure what you mean by mountpointname
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 2491 9767520 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2492 2734 1951897+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 2735 9729 56187337+ b W95 FAT32 |
i got to try it again and when i enter the command it asks for a password, but won't let me push any button except enter. which then it says wrong password......:(
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OK, your FAT32 is /dev/sda4
go to /mnt ("cd /mnt"), and then "ls" to view what's there. If there is no obvious directory (AKA mountpoint) to use, then just make a new one---eg myfat" "mkdir myfat" then "mount /dev/sda4 myfat" "cd myfat" "ls" Now you should be looking at the content of the FAT32 partition. Back to my other post for how to make this mount permanent. NOTE: for "mkdir" and "mount", you need to be root--or use sudo. I personally prefer enabling the root account in Ubuntu, but that's another story..... |
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