On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:38 +0000, James wrote: [...] > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS > > > I do not want to get into HPFS/NTFS as this drive must work > easily with both XP(vista) and Gentoo systems. It will be > moved between many systems frequently, so the easiest > (least keystrokes) to auto_magically have this drive > usable between systems is my goal, even at the cost > of I/O performmance....
Well, there do exist NTFS drivers for Linux and, of course, Windows already knows NTFS. Or you could reformat the partition with vfat. The least keystrokes method would be to use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE and let it handle the chore for you. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

