Sorry for the repeat post, but I thought I should add some more information.
On my XP/Mandrake 9.2 dual boot machine I have created a FAT32 partition using the XP disk management tools. I did this so that I can write to the FAT32 partition from Linux and XP.
How do I add the FAT32 partition to the Linux /mnt directory?
I presume I should edit my fstab file, but how do I find the name of the partition (it's an extended partition)
I presume/guess the entry should be something like:
/dev/hda? /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0
Indeed. To find the partition type
fdisk -l
as root in a termial. This will give you the list of your partitions. In newer version of Linux the partitions are something like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 and not /dev/hdan anymore. /dev/hdan is only a link to this long file name. You can put this long file name instead of /dev/hdan in fstab.
and what should I replace ro with so that I can write to the disk?
by nothing; just remove it.
<begin current fstab>
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_e ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
<end current fstab>
SR
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