> > > 1. I installed FC3 x64 on a separate drive in my
windows XP system. At
> > > the time of installation, I was asked a question as to how much space
> > > I should assign on the drive so that Windows and linux can both share
> > > files. I remember to have assigned at least 20 GB. However, When I
> > > boot from WinXP, this drive appears completely unformatted. How do I
> > > find this 20 GB in both Windows and linux?
> > Did you format the drive? if you right click the drive in
windows it
> > sould give you a option to format it make sure you format it as fat32
> > not ntfs. if you don't have that option boot into linux and format it
> > as fat32 or Vfat also read up on it before you try this
> > man fdisk
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jim Lawrence
> > Registered Linux User: #376813
> If you already formatted it, just do:
>
> mount /dev/hd /any_dir_name
>
> (hd is the name of your shared partition; for me is hda5)
>
> It works fine for me !
>
>
Or if is formatted and you always want to have it accessible, add the
following to your /etc/fstab file please edit accoring to your usr
name and group id and the location of the partition.
create a folder in your home directory named windrive
then add the following to your /etc/fstab as root
****************************************************************************************
# Added 2-3-05 by jim <-- note to myself that I added it
/dev/hda5 /home/jim/windrive vfat rw,nodev,uid=jim,gid=jim,noexec 0 0
--
Jim Lawrence
Registered Linux User: #376813
Thanks for your responses.
I did not see the partition at all. I have two paritions on the Linux
HDD (/dev/hdb) . /dev/hdb1 is 99mb boot (EXT2) sector and the rest on
EXT2 (/dev/hdb2). So, I tried to create a partition fdisk and also
Parted from Linux. Parted with mkpart seemed to do that in a flash but
after that and print, it did not show any additional partitions. I
tried extended, logical, primary, nothing worked. Then I made a boot
image of Parted and tried from boot. This also refused to do any
partitions. So I tried fdisk. This also refused. Then I went to
Windows, tried to create partitions, it would let me. Not even
partition magic. Now will a dell supplied fdisk partitioning disk work
on this EXT2 format ? I can provide all the output from my trials if
needed.
Any suggestions on how I should create a new partition?
PS: Elsewhere, I read that Parted does not work on FC.
-Regards,
Trichy.