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DETAILS:

I am having a Forty GB(40GB) IDE HDD win 192SDRAM Non-ECC

The disk partioning is in the following way:

Four Primary Partiitions of 2GB Each
(Total = 8GB)

Two extended Partitons of around 14GB Each
(Total - 28GB)

OS configuration is as Follows:

The First Primary Partition of 2G is FAT32 with Win2k Professional
Another Two Partirons of 2G each are utilised for installing
RedHat7.3,ie. Linux is installed in a 4G Diskspace

The fourth PRimary Partition of 2G is again FAT32 and Empty(No Data)

The rest two partitions of 14G each are also FAT32 Based,Used for
data Storage.

REQUIREMENT:

I Want to access FAT32 Partitions from Linux
and also want to access Linux partitions from
Win2k Prof.

Please help me in doing the above task

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by alveden

There is no way for window native to access linux partition. However, you can achieve this by using third party tools. Check out this link.

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

As for linux accessing windows partition, linux are able to read FAT16, FAT32 and even NTFS file system. It is a just a simple mounting of the windows partition to linux filesystem.

Try this -
1. mkdir /mnt/win
2. mount -t msdos /dev/hda0 /mnt/win
3. ls -al /mnt/win

You should be able to access the content of the win2k root partition, which is partition one.

If you want a complete list of the device mapping to partition, used the command sfdisk -l.

You can even configure the drive to mount automatically by entering the values into the fstab file.

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