mount fat32

[gusvlaski]

here is the deal.. i have dual boot windows xp and suse 10.1... i just i just created one fat32 partition but suse won't recognize it. i really dont feel like reinstalling just so suse can recognize the partition.
this partition is not even listed in fstab... could someone please tell me what i need to add to fstab so linux mounts it automatically? thanks!

[genesus]

ok, lets assume that your device name is /dev/hda2 for the fat32 hdd. First you need to make a mountpoint, a directory from which you will access the drive. If it is your windows drive then something like this will do

mkdir /mnt/windows

You may have to use sudo or do this as root if you get an error.

Then to mount the hard disk

mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows

Then you simply go to the /mnt/windows directory to see the files on that disk or partition.

If you want the drive to automatically mount to that directory upon boot, then add this to your /etc/fstab file, either as root or by opening your editor o'choice with sudo

/dev/hda2     /mnt/windows     vfat     defaults,auto    0  2

Should work like a charm.

P.S., man fstab, to read more about its options, as the above are pretty generalized.

[gusvlaski]

ok but here is the thing that i didn't tell you. i have two hdds.. one where winxp and linux are install and the other just for files... well the the one that winxp and linux are installed is where that extra fat32 comes in... here is the fstab(a lil messy maybe)

/dev/sda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda7 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda2 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0


i'm getting errors with what you said above

[devils casper]

is your second disk SATA ? replace hda2 with sda2.
post the out put of 'fdisk -l' command. you must be root to execute it.




casper

[gusvlaski]

ok here it is :



Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 11433 91835541 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 16686 24462 62468752+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 24463 30401 47705017+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 11434 16685 42186690 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5 24463 24656 1558273+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 24657 26371 13775706 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 26372 30401 32370943+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 48641 390708801 7 HPFS/NTFS



i did mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/windows.. and the dir is there but i cant write to it.. i probably did it wrong? can i somehow edit so i can write to it ?

[pavlo_7]

try it with read/write option:

mount -t vfat -rw /dev/sda4 /mnt/windows

[devils casper]

i did mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/windows.. and the dir is there but i cant write to it.. i probably did it wrong? can i somehow edit so i can write to it ?

in fstab file, add this line ...

/dev/sda4 /mnt/windows     vfat       rw,defaults,umask=0 0 0

casper