On Monday 23 July 2001 11:22, civileme wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2001 16:43, DStevenson wrote:
> > I have kept an eye on the this mailing list, but their have been no
> > replys. I know that no one is obliged to answer a plea for help...but
> > does anyone have a clue as to what is causing my problem?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > A User trying to Learn.
> >
> > On Saturday 21 July 2001 12:51, DStevenson wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Basically I need to know which is the best way to partition/format a
> > > hard drive which is going to be shared by Linux/WinMe.
> > >
> > > The hard drive had some read errors (in WinME), so I went into
> > > Harddrake and deleted the partition (i have tape backup) and rebuilt
> > > using FAT32 LBA on primary. This is a single partition using all
> > > available space (4.2G). Made it active and formated the space, saved
> > > config to 'fstab' and rebooted machine.
> > >
> > > Problem:
> > >
> > > I can see the drive and write to the drive in Linux. I boot into WinME
> > > and...cannot see the Linux data. But I can write to the drive and
> > > created a dir and file. I boot back into Linux...I can see the files
> > > created by Linux, but not the WinME files.
> > >
> > > For test purposes I just created a directory named linux_dir with a
> > > single file named linux_file. Did the same in windoze.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on here. I have a couple of
> > > Linux books but cannot find any pitful that I may fallen into.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Dave
>
> Mighty good shootin' there, Tex!
>
> Lessee if I get this right....
>
> You have a bare drive formatted FAT32 and with no systems on it.
>
> Linux sees the drive
>
> WinME sees the drive
>
> They can both write files to it
>
> Neither can see the other's files.
>
> If I have all that correct from your post (and I was certain someone else
> would respond), then send me
>
> cat /etc/fstab
>
> dmesg
>
> lspcidrake
>
> Civileme
Well, the drive is used as a storage pool, no OS will be installed on it.
I firstly tried to format using WinMe but, this formats but then does not
allow me to write to the disk. I have tried 'fdisk' but this hangs
the system. I tried 'fdisk' from the boot
disk as well as from a Win95 disk as that version can be tolerent of dodgy
FATables. But no joy, hangs the system after you select 'Y' to enable large
disk support.
If I install the disk via Mandrake 8, using Harddrake it allows me to change
partition sizes, of types FAT and FAT32.
The device is /dev/hdb1. I did notice that Mdk tried to create the partition
as an exended partition as 'hdb5', this seemed strange so I selected changed
this to 'primary' and activated it. Was this the right thing to do?
Thanks for any help as the data on this drive was all the personal data in
daily use, and sym links from my home directory to this drive are broken at
this time although the data is on tape.
Dave.
The following file contains the data requested by Civileme. ;-)
dmesg, lspcidrake and fstab data
