Linux and Windows

[DuNgA]

Is it possible for me to 'see' my windows partition while i'm in linux and vice versa.

i have this 30gb which i partitioned into 20gb and 10gb for windows xp and redhat respectively. is there any way where i can browse my win directory in redhat? anyone...

[bailey]

yes it is,
a lot of servers are linux systems.

[DuNgA]

thanks for the reply bailey....

could u like help me put bout this....like how do i set up?

[twoguise]

you have to mount the drive .don't know about RH but with Mandrake 9.1 and SuSE 8.1 and 8.2 they were mounted automatically............I've got Win98 on 20g partition and SuSE 8.2 on 10g partition..........all my tunes are on windows part..................and I listen to them in linux all the time .........no problemo
goodluck :D


reread your post..............conversely from Windows I cannot see anything in Linux...........doesn't even see the partition

so's I can't help you there

[DuNgA]

let me rephrase my question again then.

I 've got this 30gb hdd which i partition to 2 partition, one with 20gb and the other is 10 gb.

I installed win xp in the 20gb partition while red hat in the other 10gb.

all my mp3's are in my win xp partition, i cant access to them if i'm in linux. same goes if i am in linux i cant access my files in the xp partition. is there anyway where i can access both partition no matter in which os i'm in.

twoguise - what do you mean by mount?

[kilgoretrout]

You can access NTFS partitions from linux read only with virtually all linux distros except red hat. NTFS is a proprietary windows filesystem and rh is super paranoid about IP issues so it chose not to include NTFS support(and no mp3 support as well) from 8.0 onwards.There are rpms available to give NTFS and mp3 support to rh, but you'd probably be better off with mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 which has this support out of the box.

Windows refuses to put in any support for linux partitions or filesystems for obvious reasons and, accordingly, you can not see a linux partition from any windows OS.

Linux(including rh) can read and write to FAT32 partitions as can winxp. Most people that dual boot with winxp and linux create a separate FAT32 data partition to share data between winxp and linux.

Someone mentioned linux servers above. That kind of confuses the issue. Client-server communication between a linux and windows box uses TCP/IP which is an open format for network communication supported by all OSes. It's what the internet runs on and is almost universally used for local networking as well. When networked you can transfer a file from a linux box to a windows box and vice versa. You can also see each others network shares. However, all this activity is mediated by the TCP protocol of each OS.