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Old 03-17-2005, 06:26 PM   #1
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SuSe Can't See Contents of Windoze FAT32 Drive


I have a dual boot system and here is the layout/configuration of the hard drives.

C:\ Windoze XP (NTFS)
D:\ SuSe Linux 9.2 Professional
E:\ (No O/S) Simply has backup data from Windoze

I have even mounted this drive at mount point E: as a FAT32 Windoze drive. Why cannot I access the simple files or any files located on this drive? It appears as E:\ in SuSe. When I click on it, however, I see nothing. Any suggestions?
 
Old 03-18-2005, 04:00 AM   #2
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Please post /etc/fstab. Maybe you need to change some options.
 
Old 03-18-2005, 09:28 PM   #3
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/dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
 
Old 03-19-2005, 12:07 PM   #4
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I am not sure what the option 'nls' means. But I would suggest to change it from utf8 to iso8859-1 or to remove this entry. I think that Windows does not use UTF8 per default.

It could also be that the drive didn't get mounted automatically. Have a look in /etc/mtab (or mount -l) if the drive appears in that list. If not, you may try to mount it manually (mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /windows/E) and see if it works this way. If you add the option 'auto' to the fstab line, the drive should be mounted on boottime.
 
Old 03-19-2005, 06:03 PM   #5
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Okay, let me see if these will narrow down the problem. I can actually write to this drive in SuSe, however I cannot access any information that Windoze has written to it. At first this drive was an NTFS drive. Since I have a dual boot, I went in to Windoze XP and used Norton Ghost to format and convert the drive into a FAT32. Then, while in Windoze, I placed some files onto this drive (mp3, doc, xls, jpg, gif, avi, wmv, mpg, . . . etc.) Anyhow those are the files that I cannot access. If I click on my Devices side bar tab, the drive comes up in SuSe and I can successfully create a folder on this drive. But all of the other files are not coming up from Windoze. I hope this narrows the scope of the problem.
 
Old 03-22-2005, 08:22 PM   #6
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Thanx, chaning fron UTF to ISO did the trick. Much appreciated!
 
  


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