[H-GEN] FAT32 HDD access
Jason McDonald
jasonm at foxboro.com.au
Mon May 29 21:57:56 EDT 2000
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> What I want to do is install an extra 10GB HDD in my Linux box
> that can be accessed by the Win98SE machines on the LAN.
> I wanted to format it as FAT32 so that it can be swapped into
> a Win98SE machine (it's in a carrier) in the event of me trashing
> my Linux partition. (quite possible at this early learning stage!)
> The new 10GB drive will have data on it that gets used frequently
> during the day so I can't afford the downtime or the possibility of
> data loss in the event I muck things up. Does this make sense?
Here it is in four easy steps:
1. Format the new drive with whatever partitions you want.
2. Find a pre-conpiled kernel with MSDOS and VFAT filesystem support (most
distributions should provide a kernel that has these as loadable modules),
or compile a kernel of your own with these (see /usr/src/linux/README
for more info on compiling your own kernel).
3. Add an entry for each partition to your /etc/fstab file and create the
mount points. For example, if the new drive is the second IDE drive
(/dev/hdb) and you have two partitions on it, you might make mount points
/win1 and /win2 and you would add the following lines to /etc/fstab.
/dev/hdb1 /win1 vfat defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /win2 vfat defaults 1 1
4. Reboot.
You could use NFS or Samba to share the drive on the local area
network (I prefer Samba). See the NFS and Samba howto docs for
instructions.
Good luck,
J.
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