File system middle man on dual boot system?
I'm wondering if there is a filesystem that linux can write to and windows can at least read from (would be nice if it could write as well). I am aware that Linux can read from NTFS but cannot write to it (well I can't at least) and I'd like to set up a partition with a filesystem that both OS's can read/write from so that I can use and edit files working under either OS (specifically files for my website).
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If you compile the kernel yourself, there is an option to enable NTFS write support. Alternatively both windows and linux can read/write FAT32, although you won't be able to set file permissions in the usual linux way.
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Well, I've been considering building up gentoo linux, but the 90-something page manual (and my relative lack of linux command line experience) are really kind of pushing me towards something else, but I think I'll waste the paper and try it anyways. That'll let me compile my own kernel (where I'll be enabling it to write to NTFS) and I'll also create a FAT32 for the really important stuff. If my XP installation gets toasted, I won't loose any sleep over it.
Thanks everybody :) |
Not that I'd deter anyone trying Gentoo, but there is no reason to swap distro just for a kernel compile.
Whilst I never managed to coerce Suse to install on my machine, even that should cope. BTW I suspect you're going to be severely disappointed with the NTFS write support. I haven't tried since 2.6.13 when the latest (new) code was introduced, but it didn't do the job in my testing. NTFS is proprietry, and has changed at different points in time - tough job to reverse engineer it. Like the others I stay away from it (writing that is). Good luck with Gentoo - the doco is excellent. |
I re-installed to debian, got ticked because it was giving me headaches with my mouse, and now I'm using SUSE 10.0.46 (the dev build).
I haven't done much but install GAIM, and I don't want to do all that much because a defrag under windows today exposed that I haven't much room to size down that partition so if I go for gentoo, then I'll have to blow away SUSE. And, no, compiling a kernel probably isn't a reason to switch distro's, but a lack of anything better to do with my time is :) |
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