On Mon, May 8, 2006 5:41 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 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. >
But then don't you end up with the files on the windows side in a qemu virtual file system, which is just an image file on your linux partition? Can you tell me how Bernard booted to windows would access that data?
