need help sharing windows xp files w/ fedora 5

[jake95159]

hey, I need help sharing files between my windows installation and my fedora installation. I have a 200gig master drive w/ windows xp x64 on it, as well as the linus swap and boot partitions. I also have a 120gig slave w/ fedora 5 on it and a fat32 partition taking up 75gigs that i want to share stuff with between the two operating systems. Windows detects the two partitions, but fedora doesnt. If you could help that would be great. Thanks alot!! -jake

[linmix]

To use the fat partition from fedora you need to mount it.
As root (type 'su' in a terminal and enter the password when requested).
Then create a new directory un der /mnt, e.g.
#mkdir /mnt/sharedThen mount the fat partition to the directory:
#mount -t vfat /dev/hdx? /mnt/shared
Substitute hdx? for the real location of the partition
If you want this to be permanant you'll need to add a line to your fstab. Also to have permissions to use the files on the fat partition you need to set some additional parametres. Your fstab line could look something like:
/dev/hdx? /mnt/shared vfat defaults,users,umask=0000 0 0

[jake95159]

Thanks alot guys!! I'm so glad you could help! Thanks!

[jake95159]

wait - when i try to change the fstab line it says access denied even when im logged in as root. how do you change it? -jake

[steve1961]

wait - when i try to change the fstab line it says access denied even when im logged in as root. how do you change it? -jake

Open a terminal and type:

su -

followed by

gedit /etc/fstab

You should be able to save any changes you make