Hard Drive Partitions

[London Dude]

I have just installed Fedora 5 on a second hard drive in my Windows machine. Fedora starts fine and is working great but 80% of the hard drive is partitioned as NTFS file system. since I installed Fedora this no longer shows up if I boot in windows OR fedora. Is there any way of installing fedora or playing with the partitions so I can use this 80% in windows again.
Thanks
Mitchel

[SlowJet]

If windows knew there was a second disk with NTFS and now it does not means that you took the FC5 default install on the second disk and it re-partioned for FC5 by deletng all the partions on it.

If windows did not know about the second drive before then there was no NTFS partition on it (unless it came from another windows or was taken out and put back in.)

To share data between a dual booted windows and Linux system use a win FAT32 partition of about 4 or 8 GB.

So to do it right, re-install and make partitions for FC5 with the custom install.
You can play around with the gui prtitioner until you have the right layout on the second disk for FC5
leaving much of your second hard disk space free for later use.
example
hdb1 - 200 mb /boot <<<=== the mount point ext3 <<=== type of format
hdb2 - 16 to 24 GB create as a Phyiscal Volume / Volume Group then
add Logical Volumes to it as / , /home, /swap and the mount point is the same and the type is ext3, ext3 and swap.
after FC5 is up and runing use fdisk and the LVM gui toll in FC5 to make another PV/VG on on hdb3
Leave 4 or 8 GB at the end for the FAT32 partiton.
Reboot into windows and open disk manager.
Create a partition and format as win32.
Creat a dir and save some files on it.
reboot into FC5 and look up how to mount the FAT32 partition.
Open the File borwser and you should see the FAT32 partion with the folder and files you saved ther from windows.

SJ

[London Dude]

The disk was originally a windows hard drive. it is 80GB. It's partition table is currently:

10240 MB (ext3 Partition), 608 MB (linux-swap Partition), The rest is an NTFS partition.

I created the ext3 and linux-swap partitions in the fedora installer and formatted the rest as NTFS using GParted but windows still doesn't detect it. Windows knows there is a hard drive but it doesn't show up in my computer (only add/remove hardware, which says it is working properly) Fedora is now detecting it but has no access to it.

I will try reinstalling fedora and formatting the remainder as FAT32.

Thanks

[SlowJet]

It doesn't matter what it was, make it correct and use the OS and tools that are current for the native mode.
Only use Windows to create and format NTFS partitions.(i would also use windows to create the FAT32)

FC5 needs an ext3 /boot partition
Try to use LVMfor FC5 /, /home, /swap but at least
Make life easy on yourself and create a /home


SJ

[mobsta]

Using FAT32 is a waste since it has a limit of 32 GB. I presume U R using win2k or XP(or anything that reads and writes to NTFS). To reformat your drive go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Mangaement>Disk Management(in windows). there you'll see the HDD and Partition you can't see.

Good Luck

[London Dude]

Thanks for the replies although I did exactly what mobsta said, only i managed to fugure it out myself somehow (i dont know what made me think it would be there)

The partition is formatting now ant is at 31% as I type. I have also found some hidden space on my original drive so I might format that as FAT32 (it's only 1.9gb free) so i can transfer any files I need between WinXP and Fedora

Thanks for the help, both of you

[SlowJet]

Using FAT32 is a waste since it has a limit of 32 GB. I presume U R using win2k or XP(or anything that reads and writes to NTFS). To reformat your drive go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Mangaement>Disk Management(in windows). there you'll see the HDD and Partition you can't see.

Good Luck


I was talking about a share between windows and Linux, not the whole windows system.
There is not a computer OS in the world that needs 32 GB for it's system files.
So extra partition for data should be in the native OS format or a share that the 2 understand natively, i.e. fat

SJ

[London Dude]

at the moment, whenever I boot into Fedora and try to access my FAT partition it just says "permission denied" or something similar. Is there something I should do with it first?

[SlowJet]

http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100878&highlight=mount

This post flew by earlier. :)

SJ