I format all my externals as NTFS, because its rather easy to override the whole mount-locking if windows isn't shut down right, and thus far I have had no problems (Mainly media is on these drives so I don't care to much)
find the relevant row in your fstab (back it up first) /etc/fstab > and add this line (customized for your device and the mountpoint) /dev/hdc1 /media/devicename ntfs - 3g defaults.force 0 0 OR you can can create a bash script running the following command and throw the link somewhere on your desktop or gnome(kde, Xfce) as an icon to click on. I like this option better, mainly because messing around with fstab has been bad voodoo for me in the past sudo mount -t ntfs - 3g /dev/hdc1 /media/devicename -o force good luck On Jan 22, 2008 3:04 PM, Isaac Angert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also use a VM to run windows-only apps. I have found it flexible and > pretty easy to use. The one drawback is the performance loss. Since you > run 2 OSes simultaneously, you'll need twice the RAM that you're > comfortable running one OS on. Also, the processor architecture is > emulated on a VM, so it's probably not the best way to do > computationally intensive stuff...not a problem for what I use my VM > for and probably not for you either. If you've got a reasonably fast > machine and some spare RAM, (I run XP, which requires a lot less RAM > than vista would) I recommend you try out VirtualBox. It's available in > the Ubuntu repositories. > > As for the partitions, I would use NTFS just because I have no > experience using an ext3 driver under windows and I've had good luck > with NTFS support under linux. I do know that you can mount an unclean > NTFS partition by passing the correct force options to mount or editing > your /etc/fstab (usual disclaimer about filesystem corruption). > > --Isaac > > > Huan Truong wrote: > > > >Hi everyone, > > > >I have two OSes installed on my laptop, Ubuntu (hardy) and Vista, > >which is set up to dual-boot on my machine (I currently have some > >courses on MS Office and the likes so no wonder I have to keep Vista). > >I want to access some documents on both OSes - so I plan on create a > >partition to store my data and music... > > > >The last time my solution was to create an ext3 partition and have > >ext2fsd to install the ext3 driver on Vista and access that ext3 > >partition on Vista, but there were 2 limitations: 1, I can't execute > >files which are larger than 2MB on that partition (it threw out an > >error, device malfunction or something, but when I copy that file to > >another partition it ran fine again) 2, If linux was not properly shut > >down the driver would refuse to mount. > > > >I thought about formatting the partition as NTFS but linux (ntfs-3g) > >will refuse to mount my partition if windows is not properly shut > >down. > > > >My last resort was to format the partition as FAT32 but I could not > >store any files which are larger than 4GB. This is so inconvenient > >because I have some DVD ISO files to store. > > > >Any suggestions to my problem? Thanks in advance. > > > >- Huan, Truong > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with Subject: unsubscribe > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Patrick Kilgore | Truman State University | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 314.803.0842
