Re: [PLUG] Accessing a FAT32 drive from Linux

"Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com> · 2003年7月07日 01:19:53 +0000

I've had success with just including the windows partitions in 
/etc/fstab. I even get the mount/unmount/browse icons on the KDE 
desktop automatically with this. My fstab lines are:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winboot vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/windata vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/winother vfat umask=000 0 0
While the umask=000 may seem a bit insecure, it is no less secure than 
the data on those drives is when accessed natively in windows. I've 
found the umask=000 to work great on this dual boot machine where each 
family member has a linux account, but the windows boot is not set up 
for multiple user accounts.
Art

Fred K Ollinger wrote:
You could either download this:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ 
All drives that could possibly be mounted under linux will probably show
up on kde desktop.
Cli mode is this:
1. fdisk -l
This will show you your partition tables. You will see the type as well.
2. Next you can mount it:
mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /mnt
This will mount the first partition from the first slave drive onto /mnt.
You can take it from there. If you need more mount points, do this:
mkdir -p /one
for example.

On 2003年6月25日, Stephen Gran wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:38:56PM -0400, George Langford said:

Hello Plug !
Here's some more information.
The BookPC's BIOS is perfectly happy with both the 40GB and 80GB

Maxtor drives on the same cable - The 80GB's in the middle as

Slave and the 40GB's at the end as Master.

That's a good start - if the BIOS is happy with the drives and finds
them during the IDE scan at boot time, linux should be able to handle
them, if they aren't completely hosed.
What I'm discovering is that Red Hat Linux chokes when it tries to

detect the 80GB drive - and there's no opportunity to mount it along

with the floppy drive when I right-click on the display [desktop ?].

I need to work out a command-line syntax to tell Linux what file

system to look for. That's when I get all glassy-eyed.

(as root): mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt (I'm assuming you only have one

partition on your drive, and it is the slave on the first IDE cable)

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