sharing a partition

[Scott Prive]

Yes. This is what many people do to access "common data" such as mp3s and video files. If you run WINE, you probably want this setup also so you don't install apps twice.
 
Make sure your partition is FAT32, not FAT16 or NTFS. technically, you *could* use FAT16 (but trust me you don't want to because of long-filename restrictions).
 
As someone noted, under Linux you will see files that Windows usually hides. Be careful with the "rm" command that you don't delete Windows system files. In fact you can do anything dangerous to the partition, so make sure you shutdown cleanly. FAT32 btw is not a journaling filesystem so it's susceptible to losing data if the system is shutdown improperly (be it Windows or Linux OS doesn't matter)
 
 
 
If possible, you also want to avoid creating files with spaces or special characters in them. That's my opinion... you can *still* get access to the files using quoting and escaping... but I don't the "benefit" is worth the complications (a "_" underscore in files is a better substitute for spaces).
 
-Scott
 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Abhishake Pathak [mailto:abhishake00 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 5:21 AM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: sharing a partition



i'm thinking of doing a dual boot with windows 2000 and rh8.  i was wondering if it was possible to have one common partion which could be accessed in both windows as well as linux..

abhishake




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