[hblug] More More on File Systems

[Michael Adams]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:11:00 +1200
Perry Spiller wrote:

> OK. I tried again and succeeded. Here's what I got:
> 
> Filesystem    Type    Size      Used     Avail     Use%  Mounted on
> /dev/hda1     ext3     24G     1.9G       21G     9%        /
> tmpfs          tmpfs    126M     0         126M     0%       /dev/shm
> /dev/hda3     ext3     13G      190M    12G     2%        /home
> /dev/hdb1     vfat    7.9G       19M     7.9G     1%      
> /mnt/reiserfs
> 
> Does this add a dimension of sense to my original question
> about two HDDs and file systems and read/write between
> a windoze machine and the Linux PC running Xandros?

That shows your linux disk is in two partitions "/" (also called root)
and home. Your windows partition is vfat and is the secondary drive. It
also shows the windows partition is mounted in your /mnt directory as
reiserfs? That is out of whack!

Could you post the results of this command:
cat /etc/fstab

Specifically i am looking for a line like this:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/reiserfs vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0
0
Sorry about the word wrap. The "umask to =850" section which has no
spaces will probably be different.

If it looks like that then we should probably change the stupid
directory name.

To your other question. To get your linux machine to talk to a
seperate windows machine on a network is trivial. They probably already
do. To share info from one to another you need to install and run a
program called samba on the linux machine. You will need to use the same
login name and password on each computer (not 100% true but this method
makes the setup so much easier). Samba is a server that allows a linux
machine to talk the windows share language SMB.
http://us4.samba.org/samba/what_is_samba.html

-- 
Michael
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