Access to Linux (ext3) & Windows (FAT32) partitions (from Ubuntu 9.04)

[Fred Roller]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 09:34 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Heike C. Zimmerer
> <nospam08q2 at gmx.net> wrote:
>         Jay Mistry <jaylinux53 at gmail.com> writes:
>         
>         > AFAIK 'fdisk' should be part of the default bash shell
>         commands. I alos
>         > tried looking into the Package Manager for fdisk related
>         packages &
>         > installed them. But this also doesnt work.
>         
>         
>         fdisk is part of the base installation.  It has nothing to do
>         with bash
>         except the usual place to run it is in a terminal and from a
>         bash
>         prompt.
>         
>         fdisk is located in /sbin.  Since /sbin is usually not in a
>         user's
>         $PATH, this means you have to run it as root (e.g., from sudo)
>         or
>         explicitly call it as /sbin/fdisk, or include /sbin into your
>         $PATH.
>         
>         Heike
>         
>         
> 
> Running sudo /sbin/fdisk -l gave the HD & partition output. (On Fedora
> 10, I do not have to su - to root, just fdisk -l as normal user gives
> the proper output).
> 
> The result of "sudo /sbin/fdisk -l" is at
> http://pastebin.com/f37fea47d
> 
> Jay
> 

The following should set you up based on what you have

Next in sequence and not using O so it doesn't get confused with 0:
	mkdir /media/Windows_P 

Edit fstab
	gksu gedit /etc/fstab

copy anyone of the window lines and change to mimic:

	/dev/sda1 /media/Windows_P vfat defaults,locale=en_IN 0 0
                ^                ^ ^^^^

Please note the changes.  If you have r/w issues we can set umask later.
But this should survive reboot.

Your fedora will look similar:

	/dev/sd[a-c][1-9] /media/fedora ext3 defaults 0 0
                 ^    ^          ^^^^^^ ^^^^         ^

Again note the changes.  I do not recall which drive and partition
fedora was on but since it boots I would assume sdb4.  Change the mount
point.  Change fs type to ext3.  I deleted the en reference.

Hope this helps.
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Fred R.
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