1)Windows shared space. Where is it?

[Andre Perrotta]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 10:39 -0500, jim lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:36:11 -0500, Trichy pasupathy
> <trichy.pasupathy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. I installed FC3 x64 on a separate drive in my windows XP system. At
> > the time of installation, I was asked a question as to how much space
> > I should assign on the drive so that Windows and linux can both share
> > files.  I remember to have assigned at least 20 GB. However, When I
> > boot from WinXP, this drive appears completely unformatted. How do I
> > find this 20 GB in both Windows and linux?
> > 
> > My appreciation to your responses in advance.
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> Did you format the drive? if you right click the drive in windows  it
> sould give you a option to format it  make sure you format it as fat32
>  not ntfs. if you don't have that option boot into linux and format it
> as fat32 or Vfat  also read up on it before you try this
> man fdisk
> 
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> Jim Lawrence
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If you already formatted it, just do:

mount /dev/hd /any_dir_name


(hd is the name of your shared partition; for me is hda5)


It works fine for me !