read write will work fine. i did this about 12 months ago for many many months and never had a problem. and i've not heard of a problem ever happening at all. anyone else? On Thursday 18 October 2001 00:15, Ron Joffe wrote:

I have a standard (well out of the box) Suse 7.2 install on a dual boot Thinkpad. There are 4 partitions: hda1 NTFS - For Win2k (Obviously) hda2 ext2 - For /boot hda3 Fat32 - For data storage hda4 ext2 - For suse

I want to be able to share hda3 between the two os's. All the reading I've seen says that to mount a fat32 using vfat and read only because corruption may occur. Any comments on this. Are those documents on the suse site current or do those relate to older versions? What is the correct way to mount this partition so that both OS's can read/write to it?

Thanks,

Ron

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Ron Joffe wrote:

I have a standard (well out of the box) Suse 7.2 install on a dual boot Thinkpad. There are 4 partitions: hda1 NTFS - For Win2k (Obviously) hda2 ext2 - For /boot hda3 Fat32 - For data storage hda4 ext2 - For suse

I want to be able to share hda3 between the two os's. All the reading I've seen says that to mount a fat32 using vfat and read only because corruption may occur. Any comments on this. Are those documents on the suse site current or do those relate to older versions? What is the correct way to mount this partition so that both OS's can read/write to it?

Thanks,

Ron

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I have three Vfat drives mounted so that I can read/write to them from Linux. Have had no problems what so ever with this. To mount the drive in Linux, add a line to your /etc/fstab to mount it during the boot process. /dev/hda3 /windows (or any name you want) vfat, auto,user 0 0 Also make a directory in root for the drive: /windows or the name you used in the fstab entry. 'auto' with mount the drive on bootup of Linux. If you do not want it to auto mount, replace 'auto' with 'noauto'. If using 'noauto', you will what to manually mount it whenever you wish to read/write to the drive. Nevada