On 4/24/05, Pieter Hulshoff
wrote: On Sunday 24 April 2005 10:12, Surya Kiran Gullapalli wrote:
What I need ideally is read write access to D drve from windows and linux boxes, so that I can set the home directories on both the OS to this drive.
Format your D drive as FAT32, and both Linux and Windows XP can read/write them. As an alternative; I believe there are Windows programs that will allow you to read ext2/3 partitions as well.
Regards,
Pieter
Well, I was able to format the hard disk with FAT32 option. and linux was able to mount the drive with out any hitch.
Say /windows/D is my D drive on windows and i mounted it on linux, and set /windows/D/directory as home directory on linux.
when i start linux, KDE shows up a problem saying .DCOP server cannot start, blah blah blah... and logs me out immediately.
So i changed the home directory to /home/directory on linux (which resides on the same partition as linux). Now i'm able to log in properly.
I've created a file in /windows/D/ say /windows/D/sample_file
I can edit sample_file from both linux and windows.
When i delete sample_file from windows, and come back to linux, I can still see the file at the same place.
When i write some thing to /windows/D/ from linux, and reboot and start windows,
windows cries foul and says, it has to run chkdisk on that particular drive. First, What does your fstab look like for that entry. It should look something
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 1:07 am, Surya Kiran Gullapalli wrote:
like:
/dev/hdaX /home vfat auto,users,exec,uid=<your uid>,gid=<your group id>
Initially, it is important to have exec on so that you can execute the
startup scripts. I personally do not think it is a good idea to use a FAT
file system as your /home. There are other ways to accomplish what you
want. In any case, if that's what you want, then go for it.
You can also use /home/<username>/<dirname>
And make it a subdirectory of your /home/<username> directory.
You may want to remove ",users".
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Jerry Feldman