Linux, WinXP, and Partitions

[redfoxtx]

Hey, I've just reformatted my pc, and i went for putting WinXP Pro aswell as RedHat Linux 9 on the computer.

I have 2 seagate 80 gb hdds, and i went in and partitioned them druing the windows set up into 8 or so partitions for varios things, and left 10 gigs at the start of the non-windows drive for linux to go on.

Windows installed fine, and can obviously see all the partitions and access them, it can even see the linux partition, although it obviously cant access that.

When I got around to installing Linux, i went throguh the redhat gui installer, and got it to format the left over space in its file system, and call it the boot drive (i think thats what setting it to / meant), at the time it saw all the other partitons and their file systems just fine. Then linux went ahead and installed, and the boot selector and linux are working fine.

The problem is i cant find the other partitions in linux, so i cant acces that data. I think during the setup i should have mapped the partitions to folders for linux, or somthing like that, but i didnt.

Worse case scenario, i can re-install linux (although it took a while), but i was wondering if there was an app i could use or even a command that would get it to be able to see those other fat32 partitions

thanx for any help

[lord tarsonis]

Originally posted by redfoxtx
Hey, I've just reformatted my pc, and i went for putting WinXP Pro aswell as RedHat Linux 9 on the computer.

I have 2 seagate 80 gb hdds, and i went in and partitioned them druing the windows set up into 8 or so partitions for varios things, and left 10 gigs at the start of the non-windows drive for linux to go on.

Windows installed fine, and can obviously see all the partitions and access them, it can even see the linux partition, although it obviously cant access that.

When I got around to installing Linux, i went throguh the redhat gui installer, and got it to format the left over space in its file system, and call it the boot drive (i think thats what setting it to / meant), at the time it saw all the other partitons and their file systems just fine. Then linux went ahead and installed, and the boot selector and linux are working fine.

The problem is i cant find the other partitions in linux, so i cant acces that data. I think during the setup i should have mapped the partitions to folders for linux, or somthing like that, but i didnt.

Worse case scenario, i can re-install linux (although it took a while), but i was wondering if there was an app i could use or even a command that would get it to be able to see those other fat32 partitions

thanx for any help

Well lad..firstly you have a security problem It is too high.I think you can access to those partitions when you log on with root account and kick up your file browser and head to the /mnt/ directory hopefully those windows partitions will smile at you brightly with names beginning with "win" prefix

But,apart from that..windows cannot see linux partitions..how could you manage to do that?

[Method1]

well first u have to login as root then go to the terminal and type this

mkdir /mnt/fat32

then open up gedit and edit /etc/fstab
open up the hardware browser then look for the fat32 partition and see what hda number it is

then back to gedit type this on the bottom, in a new line
/dev/hda(corresponding number of ur fat32 partition) then tab then /mnt/fat32 then tab then type this as it is

vfat user,rw,exec,uid=500 0 0

save then reboot