Sharing a data partion on a dual boot system.

[gorgeous lucky luke]

I have used Partition Magic to split my hard drive in two and install Fedora core 9, while keeping that Other OS. No big problems with the instalation.

When I split the hard drive, I made a smalll data partition (logical extended Fat 32) with the intention of using it to share data beteen Fedora and the Other

This, according to the blurb, all seemed pretty reasonable. Basicaly I want to share data between Open Office and Office 2000. The problem is I cant get into the data partion from Fedora.

The Partion scheme as seen from Fedora is :

/dev/hda
..............hda1........................17 GB FAT 32 (Windows XP)
..............hda2..........................3 GB extended (contains the data partion)
......................hda5..................3 GB FAT 32 ( the data partition)
..............hda3........................0.1 GB ext 3 (I set this up as linux swap partition)
..............hda4.........................15 GB LVM physical volume (linux)

Suggestiions gratefuly received

[Roxoff]

You need to add something like this to your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hda5 /home/shared vfat defaults 1 0

then make sure the directory /home/shared exists.

You should then be able to mount the directory using:

# mount /home/shared

and the folder will also be mounted automatically when you boot up!

Incidentally, your windows xp partition is FAT32 too, you didn't need to bother with a seperate shared partition, you could have just mounted that directly.

Oh, and if you're using the office tools from both platforms, you might want to consider using OpenOffice in both Windows and Linux. That way, your office package will always be reading and writing native file formats!

[spiders]

Dear

actually no need of making the changes to /etc/fstab file if you need temporary sharing.

Whenever you need to share, you can just mount the fat partition on a dir in / and do the rest.


have fun !

[gorgeous lucky luke]

Just to let you alll know, the suggestion by Roxoff worked

It wasn't even that difficult, although he did assume I knew what I was doing. Very bad assumption

I think I am becoming a linux addict, even though I do not get spoon fed

many thanks to all

[Roxoff]

Just to let you alll know, the suggestion by Roxoff worked

It wasn't even that difficult, although he did assume I knew what I was doing. Very bad assumption

I think I am becoming a linux addict, even though I do not get spoon fed

many thanks to all

lol, I didn't assume you knew what you were doing, but I've tried to be a bit less specific when helping people on here over the last few days. I figured that if I tell folks how to fix the problem without telling 'em exactly how to crank the handle of their system, then they'll seek out the knowledge they're missing, and learn a bit more in the process - and they'll always come back if they really cant figure out the details. I hope you learned a litte more about how your system works as a result of following my suggestions