Re: [SLE] Fat32 File System

On Wednesday 17 October 2001 04:19 pm, you wrote:

--- Ron Joffe wrote:

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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.

What you've read is mostly correct. I've personally had no problems with using vfat in r/w mode, but maybe I've just been lucky. :) You just need something like this in your /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda3 /windows vfat defaults,rw 0 0

My syntax may not be entirely perfect (just look at what's in yours), but that's most of it. This will automatically mount /windows every time your computer boots Linux or you issue `mount -a', but you will need to have root or disk privaleges to write or modify contents of that disk. For a little more flexibility, you may try:

/dev/hda3 /windows vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0

Which will allow any user with mount privaleges to mount the disk, and the partition will not be mounted automatically. If you're not comfortable with data loss, just change `rw' in the options field to `ro' and you'll be fine.

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Perhaps you are confusing the risky read only option with NTFS which IS dangerous to write to. PCHintz