Re: FS compatible with Win. & Linux

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 02/06/04


Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:46:36 GMT

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:32:27 +0000, Charles wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'd like to format a hard drive that I'd be able to use Read/Write with
> both Linux and Windows machines.
> Do you know of a file system that both OSes will accept?

Create a fat32 logical disk with doze tools, add a vfat fs type line
in /etc/fstab.

Required reading:
        man mkdir
        man mount
        man umount
        man fstab

create your vfat mount point mkdir /mnt/win_e

You have to solve for X
Modify /etc/fstab with something like
/dev/hdaX /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

mount /mnt/win_e to see if it works.

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