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Linux ate my harddisk!?
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| John Hsiu 2002-11-22, 2:24 pm |
| Hi,
I am a novice to Linux. Just now I installed redhat 8.0 on my old 5GB
harddisk.
What happened is that, after I installed Linux, and return back to my
Windows OS,
the D: drive letter disapeared from my windows explorer.
Is this a bug or something else?
Basically I am processing the same data in both Windows and Linux, how can I
make
this data transparent to both OS?
Thanks.
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| Robert Hord 2002-11-22, 2:24 pm |
| John Hsiu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a novice to Linux. Just now I installed redhat 8.0 on my old 5GB
> harddisk.
> What happened is that, after I installed Linux, and return back to my
> Windows OS,
> the D: drive letter disapeared from my windows explorer.
>
> Is this a bug or something else?
>
> Basically I am processing the same data in both Windows and Linux, how can
> I make
> this data transparent to both OS?
>
> Thanks.
Windows don't read Linux drives. Linux can read vfat drives, some can read
NT drives. What is the Windows OS, 9x, NT or what. Lots of choices here.
What format do you have the Windows drives seup, vfat, vfat32, NTFS? There
is help.
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RedHat 8.0
http://flashpages.prodigy.net/rhordjr
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| Peter Karlsson 2002-11-22, 6:25 pm |
| begin virus.exe
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 03:37:58 +0800, John Hsiu <fly@high.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Is this a bug or something else?
[snip]
Yes, it's a bug alright. It's called "Windows". :-)
> Thanks.
HTH,
Peter
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"Gentoo Linux - Because I'm worth it!"
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| John Hsiu 2002-11-22, 10:24 pm |
| Karlsson dun try to fool me leh! even if im no good in linux i am expert in
windows.
"Peter Karlsson" <gijoe.YOUR@PANTS.mail.nu> wrote in message
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| +Chiron+ 2002-11-22, 11:24 pm |
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> Karlsson dun try to fool me leh! even if im no good in linux i am expert in
> windows.
Obviously.
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"John Hsiu" <fly@high.com> wrote in message
news:arm0nu$j4m$1@mawar.singnet.com.sg...
> Hi,
>
> I am a novice to Linux. Just now I installed redhat 8.0 on my old 5GB
> harddisk.
> What happened is that, after I installed Linux, and return back to my
> Windows OS,
> the D: drive letter disapeared from my windows explorer.
>
> Is this a bug or something else?
>
> Basically I am processing the same data in both Windows and Linux, how can
I
> make
> this data transparent to both OS?
>
> Thanks.
Get hold of partitionmagic, you'll find your linux hard drive no problem
at all, then just follow the instructions to get rid of the linux formatted
drive and enable it as a dos formatted drive etc.
D.
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| Fredderic 2002-11-27, 10:25 am |
| > What happened is that, after I installed Linux, and return back to my
> Windows OS, the D: drive letter disapeared from my windows
> explorer.
Windoze's main (and appart from NTFS, its ONLY one) filesystem is a
half-baked kludge ontop of a filesystem that has barely seen any improvement
since well before Windoze 3.1. Appart from NTFS, Windoze doesn't know what
a decent FS is, and from what I've heard around the place, even that one's
not so flash.
The list of filesystems Linux supports out of the box, well, I can't even
remember how many there are. But it supports modern every OS I've seen, and
a whole lot more. Among those filesystems are:
fat -- will read Windoze partitions, though without long file support.
(This is the real filesystem used on any non-NTFS Windoze partition)
vfat -- a derivitive of fat which performs the Microsoft long filename
kludge. (Basically just adds bogus directory entries which carry extra
information like the long filename, hence the legacy "MS-DOS name" you see
in the properties pages)
umsdos -- another derivative of fat which adds unix-like advanced features
to a standard fat (or vfat?) drive, though only from within Linux. This is
for if you can't set up a Linux-native partition for some reason (also
useful if you want to just evaluate a Linux install, using spare space on an
old Windoze disk). Though you need to be careful not to move files around
while you're using Windoze, because it (DOS) doesn't know how to move the
extra information along with the files.
The short of it is, for an out of the box Windoze machine, not a chance.
But luckily there's a little utility I use called FSDEXT2, which allows
Windoze read-only access to an ext2 partition (And quite frankly, read-only
is all I'd want Windoze to be allowed to do).
A Linux machine can work with either OS just fine. Simply stick the Windoze
drives in the fstab if they're not there already, and they'll be there for
you every time (even works faster under Linux). But if you need your Windoz
e OS to access Linux files, either put them on the Windoze partition, mount
the Windoze partition with umsdos (and be careful when in Windoze), or get
something like FSDEXT2 which will allow you to read (at least, my version is
a little old) your Linux ext2 partitions. (To be honest, I haven't tried it
since I updated my ext2 to ext3 some time back... So I don't know if it'll
even work anymore)
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| gr33nd4yg1rl 2002-11-27, 4:33 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by Peter Karlsson
begin virus.exe
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 03:37:58 +0800, John Hsiu <fly@high.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Is this a bug or something else?
[snip]
Yes, it's a bug alright. It's called "Windows". :-)
> Thanks.
HTH,
lol
Peter
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