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Re: mount?


beau wrote:
> On 5/3/05, Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>It will automagicly be mounted as
>>/cygdrive/<driveletter assigned to fat partition>
> 
> XP doesn't seem to know this partition exists.  I had XP on my full
> 80GB, used the debian sarge isntaller to shrink it to 30GB, created
> 10GB FAT, gave the rest to debian, thinking I could use the FAT as a
> shared storage resource.  Not all of which is directly on topic,
> apologies.  Any pointers as to how to make my little scheme a reality?
>  Am I going to have to start from scratch? :(

Windows may not like the way Debian set the partition up.  You
may have more luck if you delete, recreate and format the FAT
partition under Windows (saving anything there first, of course).
Debian will almost certainly be able to access a FAT filestore
made by XP.

-- Cliff

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