FC4 - Mounting an external HD. Am I almost there?

[Luc MAIGNAN]

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Hoffmann a écrit :
> --- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hoffmann wrote:
>>     
>>> --- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:02 -0800, Hoffmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>
>>>>> I used the following command to mount an external
>>>>>           
>>>> HD
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> on my box:
>>>>>
>>>>> # mount -t ntfs -o umask=007 /dev/sdf5
>>>>> /media/HP_Personal_Media_Drive
>>>>>
>>>>> and I got this permission: 
>>>>> dr-xr-x---   1 root root 12288 Dec  9 16:56
>>>>> HP_Personal_Media_Drive
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I change this thing in order to have
>>>>> permission (as a non-root user) for writing on
>>>>>           
>>>> that
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> external HD? My goal is to be able not only to
>>>>>           
>>>> read
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> the external HD (as I can right do now), but also
>>>>>           
>>>> move
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> files to it.
>>>>>           
>>>> The linux ntfs driver has very limited write
>>>>         
>> support
>>     
>>>> and won't be able
>>>> to do this. There may be other ways of doing what
>>>> you need though - see
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
> http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#3.2_can_the_driver_write_to_an_ntfs_volume_too
>   
>>>> Paul.
>>>>
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>>>       
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the hint. 
>>> What about a partition on the external HD. Is it
>>> possible to partition it? I mean, in my case, the
>>> external HD has 120 GB, and the idea would be to
>>>       
>> keep
>>     
>>> 20 GB for using it with Windows (NTFS), and 100 GB
>>>       
>> to
>>     
>>> use with FC4.
>>> Is that possible, and how?
>>>       
>> The usual fix for this would be to reformat the disk
>> as FAT32 instead of 
>> NTFS, which would then be both readable and writable
>> by both Windows and 
>> Linux.
>>
>> Partitioning it is possible, but using a different
>> format is probably 
>> simpler.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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>
> Paul:
>
> Sorry, if my question sounds stupid. But, how can I
> reformat my external HD  as FAT32?
> Could you, please, tell me, or send me a reference
> (webpage) for that?
>
> Thanks!
> Hoffmann
>
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