I haven’t been using Linux recently, but I still want to dual-boot Windows XP and Linux. If I dual-boot with Linux, I’d like to keep all my data on a partition that will work under both operating systems. That way my documents are always available, my music is available, and so on, no matter which operating system I’m in. But Linux doesn’t support NTFS fully. They were getting close back when NT 4.0 was popular, but then Microsoft released Win2k which completely changed the NTFS structure. So right now they only support NTFS as read-only, and I think they’ve decided it’s too big of a task to try any further. So FAT32 seems like the only way to share the data on one computer.
(There are also drivers which give you full access to a Linux partition from Windows. I could store my data on a partition formatted with one of the Linux disk formats, ext2 and ext3. Presumably those would work well because those formats are well-documented for open source programmers. But when I tried some of those drivers before, they seemed very experimental and risky. I don’t trust that.)
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? This must be an issue that’s encountered frequently by Linux converts.
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You can mount fat volumes in linux and of course they are also visible in Winders. So whatever you wish to be able to see in both OS’s you could store on that partition.
Peace
opps, should have read the whole damn thing… sorry ignore.
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