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
