On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:37:23 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote: > Problem: Windows can't see FAT32 partitions that I created > under Linux using parted. What step did I skip? > > I have a new Western Digital 80GB IDE hard disk as /dev/hdc > on my dual-boot system and have created a bunch of FAT32 > partitions using parted. Some of these will become ext2 > later on, but I want to get any Windows setup out of the > way first so that the Windows tools won't screw up my > Linux partitions. > > But Win98 only sees one big partition. Parted and fdisk > displays are at the end of this message. > Maybe I have missed a step in my setup. Maybe my BIOS > auto-detect needs to be overridden. It tells me I have > 80 GB, 38309 Cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors. > I understand that Linux does not use the BIOS. > Do I need to set some parameters that will line up with > what Windows will see? > > Windows has no problem with another hard disk on the same > box that has interleaved ext2 and FAT32 partitions, > including one FAT32 that is 11GB. That disk was totally > set up using this same version of Linux and parted. > > I'm still on Red Hat 8. > > Of course I could partition it with Win98's FDISK, but > that would be a cop-out. Anyway, I'm sure I'm just > overlooking some stupid detail. > > TIA, > > Vic > > (Read on for gory details) > ________________________________________________ > > When I go to Win98 and run Fdisk, I get this: > _____________________________________________ > Display Partition Information > Current fixed disk drive: 3 > Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage > 1 A Non-DOS 8025 74% > Total disk space is 10781 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes) > ______________________________________________ > > Note that we are seeing some 100 GB here as "Total disk space", and > the full 80 GB as the size of the one partition. > > Here's what "parted" looks like: > _____________________________________________ > GNU Parted 1.4.24 > Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, > - - - > Using /dev/hdc > Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdc > is 9729/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. > (parted) p > Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.031 4000.561 primary FAT lba > 2 4000.562 8001.123 primary FAT lba > 3 8001.123 76316.594 extended lba > 5 8001.154 29996.367 logical FAT lba > 6 29996.398 49999.174 logical FAT lba > 7 49999.206 76316.594 logical FAT lba > (parted) > __________________________________________________ > > uname -a: > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002 > i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > __________________________________________________ > > Here's what Linux fdisk says about this disk: > __________________________________________________ > > Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdc1 1 510 4096543+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdc2 511 1020 4096575 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdc3 1021 9729 69955042+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdc5 1021 3824 22523098+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdc6 3825 6374 20482843+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdc7 6375 9729 26949006 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > __________________________________________________ > > By comparison, Linux fdisk gives me this for /dev/hdb which is > 40GB and is working just fine. Parted set this one up too: > __________________________________________________ > > Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4998 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 307 2465946 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdb2 308 316 72292+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdb3 317 1500 9510480 83 Linux > /dev/hdb4 1501 4998 28097685 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdb5 1501 3414 15374173+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb6 3415 4870 11695288+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdb7 4871 4998 1028128+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > _____________________________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > did you do a mkfs.fat on the partitions in question? --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss