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#1 2009-09-22 23:57:06

shortcut144
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[Solved] Mounting a FAT partition.

So I have Windows Dual-booted on my machine.  I have a FAT partition made to share fies between linux and windows.  Like, music and such.  I was able to mount this in ubuntu but cannot do it after installing gnome on arch.  Anyone know how to do it?

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#2 2009-09-23 00:44:59

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Re: [Solved] Mounting a FAT partition.

Why not keep it simpler, just mount your Windows partition (which can be achieved by installing ntfs-3g) when running Arch. Nautilus (don't think the file manager matters much here) should be able to mount it through HAL. Check out the wiki for more details.


box1: Arch (linux-3.17-rc5)
box2: Gentoo (linux-3.17-rc5)
wm: subtle

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#3 2009-09-23 01:20:53

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Re: [Solved] Mounting a FAT partition.

Assume your fat-partition is /dev/sda5 (just as an example)

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /some/mount/point

Otherwise - as 's3kt0r' says - you can easily mount a ntfs-partition for read/write as well (using ntfs-3g)

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#4 2009-09-23 15:44:09

shortcut144
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Re: [Solved] Mounting a FAT partition.

perbh wrote:

Assume your fat-partition is /dev/sda5 (just as an example)

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /some/mount/point

Otherwise - as 's3kt0r' says - you can easily mount a ntfs-partition for read/write as well (using ntfs-3g)

Awesome, thank you.  Marked as solved.

Should I put this command in my fstab, or just make a startup command for this?

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#5 2009-09-24 15:05:42

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Re: [Solved] Mounting a FAT partition.

shortcut144 wrote:
perbh wrote:

Assume your fat-partition is /dev/sda5 (just as an example)

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /some/mount/point

Otherwise - as 's3kt0r' says - you can easily mount a ntfs-partition for read/write as well (using ntfs-3g)

Awesome, thank you.  Marked as solved.

Should I put this command in my fstab, or just make a startup command for this?

You could do either ....
If it will _always_ be there and you always want it mounted - put it in /etc/fstab, -or- you could put it in /etc/rc.local (without using 'sudo' of course).
I'm a great believer in using rc.local because you _know_ that everything which might be needed (modules eg.) will be available by then.
If you use /etc/fstab, your entry would be:

/dev/sda5   /mount/point   vfat  defaults   0 0

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