On Monday 01 January 2007 22:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > David Merrick wrote: > > I normally make the Windows > > partition the largest because Linux will be able to see and use > > that space, but Windows will not be able to see or use the Linux > > partition. > > > > Good luck, > > Michael. > > Sound advice down to there. However linux will not be able to write > to the windows partition unless you make it FAT, which is a mistake > from what i understand with any modern version of windows.
> However windows will access ext2/3 partitions thanks to the drivers > available from http://www.fs-driver.org/ > > So on that basis, put your data on an ext3 and both windows and linux > can write to it. Also note the existence of the ntfs-3g project which allows ntfs file systems to be mounted and used safely for both reading and writing from within Linux. They havn't yet got the ntfs acl permission system sorted out. This is the reason it's marked beta. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ -- CS
