On Friday 21 December 2007, Phil M Perry wrote: > Jim, Travis, and James... > > Thank you for your replies. What I'm looking for is to have all my > Firefox and Thunderbird files in a shared FAT32 partition. I'm not > sure I'm ready to trust the Ubuntu side writing to an NTFS partition, > and the Windows side has no idea what a Linux directory is.
I've found NTFS-3g to be reliable for reading/writing to NTFS on Win2k.
I won't run WinXP or Vista due to WGA, so I haven't tested NTFS-3g on those.
And there are installable programs for Windows to allow reading + writing
Linux filesystems like Ext3, such as Ext2 IFS.
http://www.fs-driver.org/
You don't necessarily have to do this with FAT32 unless you want to.
> This
> requires that 1) none of the files bookmarks, password lists,
> plug-ins, history files, email indices and files, etc.) be OS-specific
I'm pretty sure they're not. Only the executables are.
> and 2) both the installations use a pointer at a fixed location to say
> where the rest of the stuff is. I think (2) is satisfied, but I don't
> know for sure, as both FF and TB have left all sorts of junk around
> from older installations on XP.
2) is a non-issue on the Linux side, as it can be solved by choosing a
mount point and making a softlink. Don't know about the Windows side; maybe
it's settable via a registry entry or a configuration setting, or perhaps
Windows has available the equivalent of a softlink.
-- Chris
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