[WBEL-users] 60GB HD

[Ganeshram Iyer]

Thanks for all the links and comments. But I need to have it writable in 
Linux as it is a backup HD which the Windows m/c also need to read/write 
to. I tried to partition and format into two 30GB sets and it works 
fine. my problem now is that when I mount it on WBEL it is not writable. 
I know I need to add permissions when I mount, but my attempts did not 
work. Could someone please give me the writable mount command and also 
the line to add to /etc/fstab so that this disk is auto-mountable and 
unmountable by user. Thanks in advance

Ganesh

Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:

>On Monday 08 November 2004 20:56, Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
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>>I know this question is not Whitebox specific but I had a question
>>regarding a 60GB USB HD which I want to mount and format using Whitebox.
>>What file system do I need to use to ensure that this HD can be read
>>using both Window as well Linux?
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>If just reading under Linux is sufficient, and write/read under Windows, you 
>can use NTFS, and grab the NTFS package and build your own RPM's (or fetch 
>them somewhere, I've got NTFS RPM's at 
>http://www.vanree.net/wbel30/personal/ , they need to match your WBEL 
>kernel!) I mount my Windows XP partition this way. I used FAT32 for my 
>games/"data" partition (real data never goes beyond my Linux install, thus 
>on EXT3)
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>If you want to read+write under Linux you're stuck with FAT32 as far as I 
>know, and you'll have to split the disk, FAT32 IIRC doesn't go beyond about 
>32 GB.
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