OK well this guide is a basic HOWTO on allowing FAT32 file access inside Fedora Core 5. FAT32 is a file system used on Windows 95 if selected, Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000, if selected mainly.
**For Windows 95 Users NOTE: Microsoft Windows started using FAT16 file systems for Windows 95, and doubled the capacity and speed by introducing FAT32 support for large hard drives (2GB and over). FAT32 was introduced in Windows 98 specifically, so check if your Windows 95 system, has FAT32.
**For Windows 2000 Users NOTE: Microsoft started using the NTFS file system for Windows 2000. It is an option on install, that the Hard Drive can be formatted with thr faster NTFS file system or the FAT32 system. YOu need to check if your file system is FAT32 or NTFS before proceeding. INstructions for doing this are:
Start up Windows 2000. On the desktop look for the My Computer icon. Double click this. YOu should see a list of drives and a series of icons. Look for the main hard drive partition which you are KEEPING. Right click on the icon. For example if the main partition to be kept is C: the Right Click on the hard drive icon which says (C:). Select Properties at the bottom of the menu. Click on this once when highlighted blue. A pie chart should no be shown. On the screen is the data telling you how large the partition is, and crucially what the file system is. Now you know. For the NTFS guide you need to go here.
1. Login as root by running from a terminal
su
followed by typing the root password.
2. Create a directory in your /mnt folder. This can be done by running
mkdir /mnt/X
where X is the name of the directory where the fat32 partition will be mounted.
3. Run
fdisk -l
and note the name of the device file for the FAT32 partition. Lets say the device file name is found to be /dev/Y.
4. Open the file /etc/fstab in any text editor.
5. On a new line at the bottom of the file, add the line
/dev/Y /mnt/X vfat users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0
where Y is the partition number of the Fat32 partition and X is the name of the directory you created in step 2. Note that this will allow ALL users READ ONLY access to the disk. To allow Read and Write access to ALL users, change the ro to rw. If you want only root to have Read and Write access (while other users have READ ONLY access), change the ro to rw and umask=000 to umask=022.
6. Save and quit the file /etc/fstab
7. Then run
mount -a
and your hard disk will be mounted and will stay mounted after reboot.
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