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RE: [ECS] Copying btw Win/LINUX partitions Rob Hicks Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:59:09 -0800

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Hi Mark.

1. It looks okay. But, to check it out (I don't have as many parameters in
my fstab file - it looks like you've read through the man pages more
carefully than me) try it by typing "mount -a". It should mount everything
in your fstab file. Note any errors and correct them by looking at the man
page for mount.

2. Either mount it manually, by typing mount /dev/hda1 -t msdos /mnt/msdos,
or type mount -a, as noted above.

3. To access the fat partition once it is mounted, just change directories
to it, i.e., cd /mnt/msdos. You should be able to see all of the fat
directories and files. You can also copy to or from it while running under
Linux using the cp command.

4. Windows doesn't support the ext2 partition so you can't copy from an ext2
partition to a windows partition while windows is running. You can however,
write all of your data to a fat partition. If you want to keep the unix
structure such as /usr/bin/ecs and copy the contents to it automatically
when you exit Linux, you can place that in your configuration files
/etc/inittab, etc. or you can write a shell script that uses cron to
automatically copy it given some period of time. You may also want to try a
couple of other solutions. Linux-In-Dos allows you to copy Linux files from
an ext2 partition from the dos command line. Also, some versions of Linux
use a fat partition as its native partition. Take a look at Linux4Windows
from Mandrake and Phat Linux. Both run on top of a fat partition. You can
find Linux4Windows at http://www.mandrake.com/ and Phat Linux at
http://www.download.com/.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Rob
Mobile: 801-319-1766
Fax: 801-434-7497
Email: robhicks@utah-inter.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:omnip@usit.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 8:08 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: [ECS] Copying btw Win/LINUX partitions

To all LINUX users:
I REALLY REALLY need some help in learning how to copy files
btw my Win & LINUX partitions (I am wasting way too much time
copying files to/from floppies).

/etc/fstab looks like this (that last line I added, which was a GUESS):
        /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults  1  1
        /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults  0 0
        /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
        /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos defaults,user,noauto 0 0
        /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
        /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos vfat dev,exec,suid 0  0    (my addition)

I need to know:
1) What I should place in /etc/fstab (if diff from above).
2) How to execute any required MOUNT command (if applicable).
3) How to access the partition (e.g. "dir /auto/msdos" or what ?).
4) How to copy from LINUX to WIN (when booted in Windows).

tanx
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
423-745-0026

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