Why I am unable to see, the fat32 partition of windows from linux??

guptaaditya24@gmail.com · 09-07-2011, 12:26 PM

Hello.

I am using the redhat 6.0 version in VMWARE Player and I have actually installed XP windows on my hard disk. Also I have created one logical drive in fat32 format.
But when I run "fdisk -l" from linux, it doesnt show that partition with fat32 format?? Please tell me the reason. Help!

elliott678 · 09-07-2011, 12:29 PM

The partition is outside of VMware? That would explain it, Linux doesn't know it exists because it is not part of the virtual computer it is running on.

guptaaditya24@gmail.com · 09-07-2011, 02:04 PM

Ok Sir thank you. I got the answer. I could guess that, but couldn't. Newys Thank you.

Is there any way, so that it should access and show that partition.. I mean Could I use, any software/tool/command, so as to access that partition(outside vmware) from linux(inside vmware)??

sandwormusmc · 09-07-2011, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by guptaaditya24@gmail.com

Ok Sir thank you. I got the answer. I could guess that, but couldn't. Newys Thank you.

Is there any way, so that it should access and show that partition.. I mean Could I use, any software/tool/command, so as to access that partition(outside vmware) from linux(inside vmware)??

You could share it from within Windows XP and then mount it in your VMWare'd Linux using a "mount -t cifs //<ip.of.XP>/<share.name>". Set it up without a username/password at first in XP then if you want to add that you can use the "-o user=something" options in the mount command later (check the man page on mount for those options).

PrinceCruise · 09-07-2011, 02:49 PM

Hi,

In case you still haven't searched Google for it, -

Quote:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/do..._running9.html

Regards.
Prince