share files between linux and windows dual boot

[angryswede]

Ok, I have a dual boot setup of xp and fc4 and i have a 80 gig drive with both OSes on it, and then another 300gb drive for media and what not. now orginally i wanted to format that drive and make it fat32, but i heard that it would be horribly inefficient and on top of that partition magic or windows wont even let me format a drive into fat32 that is that big. its just not listed as an option. right now i have the 300gb drive as ntfs and linux can only read it, but i m spending more and more time in fc4, and i was just wondering if anyone knew of a solution.

 

[BigPete]

Yeah... fat32 is the solution.

 

[xtknight]

Almost any stock Linux distro can read NTFS just fine, and write support is out of experimental stage for some Linux NTFS drivers. Make sure it's out of experimental stage for the NTFS driver you're using though. Check this out. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Make sure you use this:

mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc

(captive-ntfs instead of ntfs and change /etc/fstab accordingly.)

With the stock ntfs driver (possibly the one included with FC4 by default), you could damage your partition if you mount it without the readonly flag!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[silverpig]

I would make a smallish ~20 GB fat32 partition on the 300 GB drive for this purpose. Linux will still be able to read the ntfs just fine.

 

[smack Down]

I would recomend using the ext3 driver for windows rather then using windows partion in linux.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: smack Down
I would recomend using the ext3 driver for windows rather then using windows partion in linux.

Ditto, except it's ext2. I use ext2fs to access my ext3 partition from within Windows XP.