get acces to disk from fgentoo and linux

Birnenpfluecker

Hi, I want to put my mp3's on a disc, which can be accesed by linux and win. I think I have to chose fat32 as filesystem, cause it is the only one which has linux and windows write support.
What have I to do to get fat write support, or is that automatic?? Is there any other filesystem I could choose?
Thx for ideas and help

Genone · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject:

maybe you want to fix your subject

For FAT support you have to build it in your kernel (or as module), same with any other filesystem (until you get to stuff like lufs or avfs). If convienience is your highest priority there is currently no alternative to FAT (except for a samba server on a second box but I guess that's not an option here). There are tools for windows to access a ext2 filesystem, but AFAIK they don't integrate into windows.

YopWongSapn · l33t Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 627

Also, the 2.6 kernel now supports writing to NTFS partitions, although I'm not sure how stable it is.

twisted_steel · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Maine

As long as you have support for File Systems -> DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems -> DOS FAT fs support and VFAT (Windows-95) fs support in your kernel you can read and write to a fat32 drive.

Then you just need a line in /etc/fstab so all users can write to it (I assume you want this kind of functionality).

Birnenpfluecker · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

thx for your answers, as for the ntfs support, have tried it, but does not work, but now I will go for. Doesn't need the best filesystem, only one for both.