Shared Partition
OK I wanted to make a shared partition for my WinXP and Slack 9 partitions so I made a Fat32 partition.
My question is, what do I flag in the kernel (2.4.20) to enable read/write for Fat32? Or should I make the partition an NTFS one instead and enable write for NTFS - isn't that option dangerous? thanks, Rob :study: |
should all be enabled by default, i don't *think* there is a rw flag... certainly don't use ntfs.
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to enable writing on fat32 partition set the partition umask when mounting it and then you can change right like on all linux partitions
(try something like thazt in your /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd1 /mount_point defaults,umask=002 1 0 and it should work) |
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thanks morg. My brain just isn't functioning well tonight as I still can't seem to get it to work. Here's my currect /etc/fstab if it will help in kickstarting my brain to get this to work:
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb3 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb4 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,users,rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,nosuid,umask=000 1 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbstick auto noauto,users,rw 0 0 everything in it works - perfectly in fact. But I can't seem to get the new shared fat32 partition to mount. I'm sure it has something to do with this "umask" part because I have no idea what that is and havn't found it in my books either. thanks, Rob |
well, in fact I don't see any fat32 partition in you /etc/fstab...
it seems that the only windows partition you got is the ntfs one and you actually can't write on ntfs under linux (really unsafe from what I know) then if the partition you want to mount isn't in your fstab just add it like in my previous post |
well no, its not in there yet I tried it manually in the console and it didn't work so I figured I was doing something wrong.
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