On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:53:16PM +0530, Mitesh Saini wrote: > > Have you actually tried this out ??? two operating systems > > accessing the same file system in rw mode can seriously > > damage your data. > > > I am accessing FAT32 file system from both linux and windows > 98 in rw mode from august2001 (when I first installed the > Linux on my system), and until now I have not lost even a > single bit of data. >
There seems to be some communication gap here ... There are no probs in accessing 16/ 32 bit M$ partitions since kernel 2.0.x under Linux or Win, as you correctly state. The point Kingsly was making is accessting ext2/ext3 partition from Win-9x. explore2fs is a Win program which does it ... The read mode is okay, the write mode is still "alpha" ... use at your own risk ! Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Viewing compresses files LOST #191 To view a compressed file (e.g. .tar.gz, zip, Z etc.) without having to first uncompress it, use : 'zcat' or 'zless' ... e.g. zless Sound-HOWTO.txt.gz ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
