accessing fat32 partition

[markopomo]

I am new to Kubuntu as well as Linux. I installed (dual boot with XP home) Kubuntu on my laptop with a fat32 partition, however, I cannot seem to access it using Kubuntu but can with XP. Any help would be appreciated.

[podunk]

Re: accessing fat32 partition

This page has the info - along with some very nice screen shots:
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows

[markopomo]

Re: accessing fat32 partition

thanks, i will try that after work

[PandaSorn]

Re: accessing fat32 partition

Hi! i have the same problem and, as a newbee, I'm making some mistakes with the procedure show in the link.
I use edgy with dual boot.
When I enter in Storage Media I see only cdrom (and the usb key if I connect this).

When I enter fdisk:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot   Start     End   Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1  *      1    2367  19012896  7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2      3363    9733  51175057+  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3      2368    3317   7630875  83 Linux
/dev/sda4      3318    3362   361462+  5 Extended
/dev/sda5      3318    3362   361431  82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

This is my fstab file after my correction, but when I remounted don't change nothing.#

# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=3d28251d-2de7-4e5b-afc8-97809d1be30c /        ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro 0    1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=1b0bde4b-01aa-43ed-8804-689ea7dc5aeb none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/hda    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto   0    0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=FC98E2C598E27E10 /windows ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=FC98E2C598E27E10 /fat_files vfat defaults,iocharset=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

Where's the error?
Thanks for answering and helping a newbee who want to use kubuntu

[penguin.ch]

Re: accessing fat32 partition

PandaSorn,

I'd try the following (replacing the given entries, of course):

/dev/sda1  /windows  ntfs  nls=utf8,umask=222  0 0
/dev/sda2  /fat_files  vfat  iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0 0

On my own systems, however, things look slightly different:

/dev/sda1  /windows  ntfs  ro,users,nls=utf8  0 0
/dev/sda2  /fat_files  vfat  rw,users,iocharset=utf8  0 0

[sutharshan]

Re: accessing fat32 partition

i have mounted the fat32 partition, but i got an error message says that i dont have permission to access the mount partition.
aslo there is a lock image in the folder which i mount the partition.
Can i mount the ntfs?

[penguin.ch]

Re: accessing fat32 partition

i have mounted the fat32 partition

How? - Please show to us what you actually have added to your file system table (/etc/fstab).

[hoyeru]

Re: accessing fat32 partition

I dunno what you mean exactly by "access" but I can easily acess any Windows partition from within KDE by creating a shortcut to the Windows partitions. And I don't have to mount any partiotion at al. All I do is right click om the desktop, choose make a new connections, find the partition HDA1 and make a short cut to it.