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Topic: reading fat32 from linux
started by: kai

Posted by kai on Sep. 15 2001,19:53

is this possible? i have lots o mp3's on my fat32 drives and i want to use them in linux. how do i get them across. can i just read them right from the drive.

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Posted by chmod on Sep. 15 2001,20:25

sure it's possible... i have all my mp3's on my winblows drive but i read them from linux. I don't know what distro of linux you're using... but on mine, i just run linuxconf, map local drive, and select the filesystem type as fat32, and pick a mount point. you should also be able to specify it in your fstab file... i'll look into the details later.

Posted by Unexplained on Sep. 15 2001,22:24

Make sure your kernel has VFAT support. If not, you need to recompile your kernel or the modules to get VFAT support.

After your loaded the correct kernel/modules, you can mount it by typing 'mount -t vfat /dev/hd?? /mnt/where/ever'.

Posted by ic0n0 on Sep. 16 2001,10:28

Now if only they would make a good linux version that ran on NTFS.

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Posted by RenegadeSnark on Sep. 16 2001,10:55

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Originally posted by ic0n0:
Now if only they would make a good linux version that ran on NTFS.

Please don't tell me you're implying a version of GNU/Linux to run with NTFS as its primary partition.

Actually, do tell me that. Good to start my day with a laugh.

Posted by ic0n0 on Sep. 16 2001,14:23

I was half joking an half real

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Posted by incubus on Sep. 16 2001,17:02

Piece of piss.

edit /etc/fstab and add

/dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat defaults

where hda1 is the dos partition and /mnt/dos is the mount point. mkdir /mnt/dos as root if its not already there.

Then come out and do mount /mnt/dos

and cd /mnt/dos

and youre there.

Be warned you need vfat support either compiled in or as a module (tho all distros ive seen have it compiled in by default)

HTH

Mike

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Posted by Unexplained on Sep. 17 2001,23:13

Read-only support for NTFS is quite good actually. The writing-part is experimental though.