hi, i have a 10 GB FAT32 drive which can be accessed by windows xp, but i'd also like my redhat 9.0 OS to be able to read & write to it. how can i go about setting this up?hello there
first you need to find the device file which points to your fat32 partition.
to do this, in a console become root
$ su - Password: *****
then type
# fdisk -l /dev/hd?
this will give a list of all the hard disk partitions
hopefully you'll find the fat32 partition.
now you'll need to make a place for the partition to be mounted to
# mkdir /mnt/fat32 (for example)
now if you want it to mount automatically on boot add this to your /etc/fstab
/dev/hd?? /mnt/fat32 vfat umask=644 0 0
if you want it to be able to be mounted manually add this line instead
/dev/hd?? /mnt/fat32 vfat umask=644,noauto 0 0
[substitute the /dev/hd?? with the device file which corresponds to the fat32 partition]
save and exit now if you type as root
# mount /mnt/fat32
you'll be able to access the partition there
hth
tim
