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I am running Mandriva Limited Edition 2005. I have it installed on a second hard drive and on the first is windows 2000 (the first drive is fat32). When I am in Windows I can not access the linux drive and when I am in linux I can not access the windows drive. Is there anything I can do to access the windows drive in linux?
Thanks,
Matthew
linux can read fat32 so just mount it some where. egthats if it is hda1 and a directory called windows exists.Code:mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
If i don't have a directory called windows, where would I have to create it, within the root?
In /mnt, as suggested above... If you don't, it probably also means you have no entry for it in your fstab.Quote:
Originally Posted by mstanford01
Code:$ su
# cd /mnt
# mkdir windows
Quote:
Originally Posted by borromini
Thanks for your help. I am able to access the windows drive now through the root directory, but can not access otherwise due to permissions. I cannot change the permissions with a chmod either. Any suggestions,
Thanks
My windows harddrive is hda1 it is a fat32 drive. My userid is 500 and my group id is 500.
In my fstab I have put
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults,gid=500,umask=0707 0 0
afterwards I ran mount -a
I got no errors but still can't access the drive from anything besides root! Please help,
Matthew
Try this:
Hopefully it'll work...Code:/dev/hda1 /mnt/media vfat auto,users,rw,exec 1 0
No Dice. I tried a Reboot and it does mount automatically, I can access it through root. It also added an icon on the desktop that is linked to it, but I cannot access it. I am sure it is something simple I am doing wrong,
thanks,
Matthew
Hmm, maybe this might work for you:
Code:/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0000,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users 0 0