Shared Windows and Linux Partition

chrisfirestar · 11-09-2003, 09:46 PM

Any way of having a partition that will have all my docs/data and then both linux and windows can view it?

perhaps I have to mount it manually I dont know??

Any suggestions?

akaBeaVis · 11-09-2003, 10:14 PM

you should be able to create a vfat partition that both can read/write to. Which windows?

/bin/bash · 11-09-2003, 10:38 PM

If you have a vfat partition at /dev/hda2 and you want access to it in linux then just put this in /etc/fstab, and it will mount automagically. Be sure to create the mount point /win/d
/dev/hda2 /win/d vfat defaults,user,auto 0 0

mordin · 11-10-2003, 12:16 PM

what if its an NTFS partition instead?

michaelk · 11-10-2003, 12:56 PM

NTFS is recommended as read only.

Another frequently asked question:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

doralsoral · 12-09-2003, 09:47 PM

Im not real sure about this but i think a lot of distros dont support ntfs, you might have to do some kernel tweaking to get it to work. i do hear of some newer distros that have support out of the box.

transeunt · 12-10-2003, 01:09 PM

And to think I used Partition Magic to convert my NTFS to Fat32 blah.... good link.. I guess I can PM it back to NTFS hehe

/bin/bash · 12-11-2003, 07:58 PM

Actually the only distro I have heard of that doesn't have NTFS support out-of-the-box is RedHat but all you have to do is google for the rpm. Most distros nowdays have it.