[CentOS] Sharing Partitions between Linux and Windows

Thu Nov 29 17:39:51 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Nov 29, 2007 9:23 AM, Saurabh Sharma <luckysharma11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've just shifteed over to linux,form Windows.I 'm having 5 partations
> for use by my windows  XP  Professional and another one by linux.The
> partation table is as shown :
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [root at localhost6 ~]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1   *           1        1275    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdc2            1276       30400   233946562+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hdc5            1276        7649    51199123+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdc6            7650       14023    51199123+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdc7           14024       20397    51199123+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdc8           20398       26771    51199123+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdc9           26772       26784      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hdc10          26785       28059    10241406   83  Linux
> /dev/hdc11          28060       28124      522081   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I want to convert my NTFS partations /dev/hdc5 ,/dev/hdc6 ,/dev/hdc7
> ,/dev/hdc8 over to FAT32,so that they can be accessible to me in both
> Windows and LINUX environments.I googled a lot for the same and found
> that in windows i'll have to delete all the partitions and recreate
> themin FAT32 format,but the limitation over here is that windows just
> allows a FAT32 partition to be at most of 32GB and i don't want to
> breakup my disk any more,can anyone please help me out with some way in
> the linux environment,to do the desired.
> Thanks to all,and please help me and LINUX grow.
>
You can access (read/write) NTFS partitions from Linux:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions

Akemi