Partition confusion

Michael Brown mwkbrown at alltel.net
Sun Nov 9 00:13:00 EST 2003


I will check it out. Thanks! 

Looks like you can read and save files from Linux but not write correct?

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:29, A. Paul LeBarron II wrote:
> I use this:
> 
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
> 
> works great.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael Brown
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:26 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: Partition confusion
> 
> I can access my windows partitions (vfat) from within Linux but I don't
> know how you can access Linux partitions (ext3) from within windows .
> 
> On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:50, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Michael Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > would like to use Linux to store everything but how do I access
> Linux
> > > partitions from within windows? I mainly need access to my photos. I
> do
> > 
> > mount -t vfat /dev/<windows_partition> /mnt/point/on/filesystem
> > 
> > The "-t vfat" may not be necessary. You may have to load the vfat
> module
> > first too, but the mount call *should* automagically do it.
> > 
> > There are quite a few options you can pass to mount for vfat - man
> mount
> > for them all. You can also find information in there on how to mount
> the
> > partition on boot by editing your /etc/fstab.
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Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net>




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