I think NTFS for your home or shared space might be the easiest way to go - It appears you can "force" mount the partition even if Windows did not shut down cleanly:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ntfs-3g.devel/144 ________________________________ Walt Howd Network Systems Admin Information Technology Services Truman State University SunGard Higher Education Managed Services 100 East Normal Street Kirksville, MO 63501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huan Truong Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fsck] One common partition for Linux and Windows. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
