Guest JavaLinux Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 I read a tutorial on how to share data between Mandrake and Windows XP. My setup is Windows XP on hda1 (40GB: Harddrive 1) and Mandrake 10.0 on hdb1 (160GB: Harddrive 2). I did as the tutorial suggested and resized hdb3 (/home partition for mandrake) with partition magic 2004, and created a 5.1 GB FAT32 partition which is to be recognized by both OS's. Windows noticed the FAT32 partition right away as I assigned a drive letter (Z:). I placed a few files into the FAT32 partition and then rebooted the system to Mandrake. In Mandrake I mounted the FAT32 partition to /home/Jon/osfileshare and added the line /dev/hdb7 /home/Jon/osfileshare vfat umask=000 0 0 to the fstab file found in /etc. I checked the /home/Jon/osfileshare directory and viewed the files that I had placed there when I was previously in windows. I was able to place a text file in the directory that I created on the desktop as well. After rebooting once again to windows, I noticed all the files I had originally placed in the FAT32 partition were there, but the text file I created and placed there while in Mandrake wasn't there. Any suggestions? [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_Rammstein Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 make shure u DO have write permisions to that partition. Make shure the mountpoint is corectly defined. For example, my fats are mounted in /mnt/windows/D if i wanna access them i go to /mnt/windows/D try navigating to the partition that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JavaLinux Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 When I tried to write to that FAT32 directory in Mandrake (or place a file in there), it would give me a warning that it could not write to that directory. I can access that directory within shell/root midnight commander, etc.. though. If I mount it to /mnt/windows/..., will it corrupt any windows files or anything? Is it safe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JavaLinux Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 (edited) Now I can write to the directory once again in Mandrake. I forgot to add vfat in fstab again. OK, after rebooting into Mandrake today I noticed I misplaced the text file I thought I added to the /home/Jon/osfileshare directory. I actually placed it in another directory, and so when I put it in there and rebooted to windows the file showed up fine. However, when I was in Mandrake I noticed two windows folders that I had not previously placed in the osfileshare directory. They were "system volume information" and "RECYCLED." After I had rebooted to windows when I was checking for the text file, I noticed those two windows folders did not show up in the FAT32 partition (mounted as Z: in windows). Why is this? Edited October 21, 2006 by JavaLinux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Did you configure it to "show hidden files" or "show system files"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JavaLinux Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 No, I didn't configure it to show or hide them. I'm not sure how I would. I just followed the tutorial to add /dev/hdb7 /home/Jon/osfileshare umask=000 0 0 to fstab. I'm not sure if anything in that line would have anything to do with showing or hiding system files would it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_Rammstein Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 those are normal folders that win creates. one to use as recycle bin and the other i have no ideea what for. anyway, in win they are allways hidden. they do nothing harmfull so it's ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 No, I didn't configure it to show or hide them. I'm not sure how I would. I just followed the tutorial to add /dev/hdb7 /home/Jon/osfileshare umask=000 0 0 to fstab. I'm not sure if anything in that line would have anything to do with showing or hiding system files would it? I meant in the windows explorer, there is a setting called that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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