On Monday 08 May 2006 15:58, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:56 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Monday 08 May 2006 15:01, Nick Rout wrote: > > > If your linux filessystem is ext2 or ext3 you can use IFS: > > > > > > http://www.fs-driver.org/ > > > > The way most people do it is to have a small 'port-hole' partition > > formatted in vfat which can then be used by both Linux and Windows. > > If you disk is fully partitioned you might find using a USB memory > > stick convenient. > > > > Otherwise either run 'Captive' by Jan Kratochvil [1] or temporarily > > run Windows in a qemu environment and transfer the files to and fro > > with the Linux host environment using Samba and Windows using the > > Network Neighbourhood. Very convenient, but rather difficult to set > > up. > > > > [1] http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ > > [2] http://us5.samba.org/samba/ > > you are back to front, he wanted to access a linux filesystem from > windows, not the other way around.
Option 2 is bi-directional, and you can use any filesystem you like on the Linux side. -- CS
