Guest jtaylr77 Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 I began with a FAT32 partition in XP but changed to NTFS but my fstab still reflects the FAT32 so it doesn't mount windows hard drive any more. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 I'm not sure this is possible - NTFS isn't supported by Linux as far as I'm aware. What you need to do is have a FAT partition withall your shared data on it whihc you can then access in either Linux or Windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 NTFS is supported for read, and writing to it is experimental. it's highly suggested against, but it is possible. unfortunately I don't have an fstab line to show you :? being that I don't use windows at all anymore... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jtaylr77 Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Yes I only need it for read only. I'm using MDK 9.1 and I had it on here before but then I tried FAT32 to run wine and launch programs from the windows partition but no luck so I switched back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 did you try using some of the tools in Mandrake Control Center? I.E. maybe diskdrake to change mountpoints and filesystem type...(just don't delete/remove/add/do anything to the partition table ;-) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 just do a search for fstab /dev ntfs its in our board.. here's a fax on our board.. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4960 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted August 12, 2003 Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 here it is: [william@poseidon william]$ cat /etc/fstab/dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 As you can see, my hd is partitioned and with mdk 9.1 I'm able to listen to some mp3 loaded from windows's directories (argh!!!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 it's possible to launch programs from your windows partition???? That would be cool!!! What about an ftp program that I have installed on there? How would the file system work on something like that? I have windows 98SE and if i could do something like that it would be very helpful to me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 It is not easy but you can use wine. It should already be installed on your Mandrake system. Do a search for wine and/or winex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 SpaceCadet: I haven't had the courage to start with a wine installation process. If you google or do a search in this site you will see a bunch posts concerning wine problems. Actually the only purpose of having windows here is due to my wife's laziness. After years using windows and MacOS, I was introduced to linux that despite of not being so user friendly as the others "common" OS is beyond all my expectations. As a linux home user and as a consequence using the computer for home purposes I was able to find all equivalent applications according to my needs. Not trying to be polemical, but xmule is a good catch to replace windows engine to share files(p2p). Here you can find some options to replace windows applications. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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