Why not just use a shared file system, that both Windows and Linux have access to, but neither really need it for anything but storage. <br><br>/dev/hda1 ext3 / deafaults 0 1<br>/dev/hda2 ext3 /home defaults 0 0
<br>/dev/hda3 ntfs /WIN defaults 0 0<br>/dev/hda4 fat32 /WIN/stuff gid= uid=,rw 0 0<br>/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0<br>proc none proc defaults<br><br>Having windows and linux use the same homedir would seem a bit bulky. Windows would see all of you hidden linux files which would look a bit messy. Also, you run the risk of Windows corrupting your linux files.
<br><br>Why do you need windows again?<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 7/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Mol</b> <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yes and no. If you're running an old enough kernel (pre 2.6.11), you<br>can use UMSDOS, which uses a special file on the FAT32 filesystem to<br>store data required to implement a UNIX-like filesystem.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMSDOS">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMSDOS</a><br><br>If you're going to dual-boot with Windows XP, I *strongly* recommend<br>using NTFS for your primary Windows partition. NTFS is a much, much,<br>much better filesystem that FAT32. You can configure any recent Linux
<br>kernel to read NTFS partitions.<br><br>If you're looking to share your home directory with your Windows<br>install, look up Windows ext2 and ext3 drivers. Be careful, though.<br>Some of the free ones are unstable. While I haven't *lost* data, the
<br>driver I tried did cause intermittant problems with Windows. ( I don't<br>remember which driver I tried, sorry.) If you're willing to shell out<br>a few bucks, there are commercial ext2 and ext3 drivers out there.<br>
(Complete with the "no liability" clause in their licenses, no doubt.)<br><br>In any case, move away from FAT32 if you can. You'll be surprised how<br>nice it is to be able to create files larger than 2GB, and to not have
<br>to have chkdisk run every time Windows locks up or loses power.<br><br>On 7/20/06, Jorge La <<a href="mailto:weeneedhelp@gmail.com">weeneedhelp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I was talking to my Calc teacher one day. He used to teach C++ under linux
<br>> back in the late 90's when their was no GUI, and i brought my laptop to<br>> school that day to show him Linux in 2006, I also gave him a Ubuntu 5<br>> live+install CD. and i told him that you can partition like this:
<br>><br>> hda1= / =linux native<br>> hdb2= /windows/ =fat32<br>> hdb3= /home/ = fat32<br>><br>> because, the night before, i had a great idea! if u made the home directory<br>> fat32, you can view your pics n w/e on windows! :o
<br>><br>> ... well... after telling him that, i actully tried it, n it doesn't seem<br>> to work, well, X doesn't seem to work very well when you try to log in :-/<br>> but the cmd works fine. :-/<br>><br>
> does anyone know if this is possable? or how to fix the errors?<br>><br>> my HDD currently looks like this:<br>><br>> hda1= Win XP (fat32)<br>> hda2= ext3 (for SuSE)<br>> hda3= Jorge (fat32, this is were i keep crap)
<br>> hda4= swap<br>><br>> hdb1= OS X (hfs+)<br>> hdb2= PC-BSD<br>> hdb3= fat 32 (more crap storrange)<br>> hdb4 = "" ""<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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