mp3 partition

[jondice]

I am going to set up a dual boot on my current machine and i plan to make a partition just for mp3s so that windows and linux can see it. What kind of partition should i make this? and how should i go about doing that. thanks

[lord sibn]

Originally posted by jondice:
I am going to set up a dual boot on my current machine and i plan to make a partition just for mp3s so that windows and linux can see it. What kind of partition should i make this? and how should i go about doing that. thanks

Are you running Windows ME? If you are, I have no idea how to go about this. If you aren't, it shouldn't be much harder than creating a partition of type 'msdos' or 'vfat' (vfat being better because of long filename support). I'd recommend using DOS fdisk for this unless you have a compelling reason not to.

[dosh8er]

Ahh, yes, compatibility..

*SLAP*

What were you thinking??? Why not just copy it to both partitions, or MOUNT (Whoa! Big word there!) the windoze drive like the ______ (fill in the blank) it is, or better yet, kill the windoze partition, give linux the glory, and put the windoze on a crappy drive that you know is gonna crash someday because it was the first one you got from your friend down the street when you started this whole computer thing 10 years ago..

That's just what i'd do. If you take me as a lunatic, you are missing out, i actually gave to a suggestion there. (again, for the stupid people, MOUNT your windoze partition).

[kubfish]

You would have to make this a dos/fat partition because windows does have problems seeing linux partions.Linux partions can see windows no problem. FDISK is probably the best way to do this. Just label that partion as a dos or fat partion. To verify its correct go into windows and see if the drive shows up.

If it does then go to the link below. There is a NHF on how to actually see the file from Linux. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/misc/winhd.html

[kubfish]

You would have to make this a dos/fat partition because windows does have problems seeing linux partions.Linux partions can see windows no problem. FDISK is probably the best way to do this. Just label that partion as a dos or fat partion. To verify its correct go into windows and see if the drive shows up.

If it does then go to the link below. There is a NHF on how to actually see the file from Linux. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/misc/winhd.html

[bdl]

Yes, you'll want to create a vfat partition, type '0C' under linux fdisk/cfdisk and of course you'll have to format it using DOS or Windows formatting tools. Then just mount it under linux as a 'vfat' partition. From my experience this is the best way to do this. Really the only problems you'll run into is if you should mount your primary windows partition as rw, I've had some data corruption in the past mounting it in this way, leading to a non-bootable windows system (although whats wrong with that, right ;) ) At any rate, your mp3 partition should be shareable between both OS's without a problem.

## example /etc/fstab

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/mp3 vfat defaults,user,rw 0 0


Luck!