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I recently have converted my windows partition from ntfs to fat32, I used to be able to see (read) it. I used Partition Tragic to do it, as it is a laptop and therefore has a Norton Ghosted recovery disc which auto converts to ntfs.
Why can't I see my win partition now, I believe I must amend etc/fstab, or could it be another problem. I can open the c: but it shows nothing, like all the files are hidden.
I think the problem is you've chosen FAT32 rather than FAT16 - I think (but I'm not certain) that the Linux kernels only support FAT16.
If you solve that problem, yes, you would have to change /etc/fstab: you would replace the ntfs in the type column with vfat. If the type column shows auto though, leave it like it is as it should be able to auto-detect.
The Linux kernel does support both FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems (read for yourself here: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html).
Post your /etc/fstab contents to see if there's where the trouble is.
I edit the file to say auto though also when I tried to open it with vi it said that I had to fstab.swp files so I deleted one, know how do I know it works.
What am I doing wrong? doesn't the ro after the vfat stand for read only, defeating the original reason for the conversion to fat.
Also my tty1,2,3,4,5,6 consoles like when I switch by pressing crtl+alt+f1 etc... my screen goes to *hit. I has a scrambled color picture looks like abstract atari graphics.
Should I be posting in the suse forum?
Also when I reboot I get the atari syndrome and cannot see the verbose mode
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