Data Access

[RobKing]

I am dual booting between WIN2000 and Red Hat 7.2. I want to partion my drive that I have WIN2000 then Linux then a partion to store data that can be accessed from both OS. Does someone know what would be best: to create and format the partion from windows and format it with FAT32 or to create the partion from LInux and what should it be formatted with?
Thanks

[majorwoo]

easiest way to do this is install windows2k and in the install you can remove all partitions and create your own.

Make like a 7GB chunk for windows, then install linux let GRUB dualboot for you (it will ask you to install a boot loader and it will detect windows, but call it DOS)

make a 100MB /boot partition
a swap partition of 2x yoour RAM in MB
a / of 5-7GB or whatever you want

and make a partiton of whats left as FAT32 for both windows and linux (if you want to) - you may need to do it from windows as i believ evfat cant make partitions over 2GB or so

[climbingfool]

I have a similer question. I just installed linux on my machine and removed windows all together but saved a lot of my files on an external usb drive with a fat32 partition and a NTFS partition. Now I can't view either of them. any help would be appreciated.

thanks

[climbingfool]

Never mind I think I found it.

thanks

[majorwoo]

I dont think linux mounts NTFS to well yet, but you can mount fat with vfat which is only alpha but I have not had any problems with:

/dev/hda1 /c vfat defaults,gid=500,umask=002 1 2

which mounts my windows C drive giving ownership to group 500 so members of 500 can write to it ( and not just root)

you could modify the /dev/hda1 to whatever you are trying to mount

[climbingfool]

I was able to make the directory mnt/usbhd1 however when I try to mount the drive I type:]mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdh1

this returns
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, band superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted flie systems

I opened my modules file and it reads
usb-storage 62000 0
usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 1 [usb-storage hid usb-uhci]

Now I know that the ntfs partition will not work because I have not yet installed the ntsf module but the fat32 partition should have mounted.
I am running the 2.4.18-14 kernal
also in my /proc/bus/usb directory the hard drive is listed in the devices file.


ok did a little more digging at linux-usb.org and they say that the usb hard drive is listed as a scsi device. so I looked in /proc/scsi/ and sure enough the drive is listed in there on scsi0. so then I tried to mount -t vfat /dev/scsi0 /mnt/usbhd1 and it returns a "special device /dev/scsi0 does not exist."

thanks in advance