On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:28:42AM -0500, ew wrote: > Greetings all, > > I tried asking this on the Ubuntu forums but, did not get an answer. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1698507 > > A while back I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in dual boot config with Windows > XP. > > In past installs I already had a second NTFS partition prior two > installing Ubuntu. I seem to recall getting annoying permission issues > (sorry for lack of detail) when running Ubuntu and performing file tasks > on the NTFS partition. With this in mind, I figured creating the NTFS > partition during Ubuntu install would be best. Unfortunately when > creating the NTFS partition, I did not realize it was set to "Partition > Type=Linux" (see forum link for details). So now this partition > although formated to NTFS, the file system is not recognized in Windows.
Just run fdisk and change the partition type. It's non-destructive to the data on the partition. Just don't go changing the partition sizes. You can address permission issues with non-linux partitions by changing the mount options. For ntfs, -o uid=...,gid=...,umask=... will set it to be owned by your user (or whoever). NTFS is generally slow since the writeable ntfs support uses a user daemon via fuse and pushes all the data out of the kernel, over a socket, processed in userspace, then back again. It's fine for sharing files but I wouldn't suggest running, say, a VM hosted on it, or other large-volume tasks like that. If you find yourself doing a lot of cross-platform sharing you might want to go network - gbit ethernet to a shared drive system (like drobo or any of the other home SAN devices) might be just what you need. Or keep using ntfs - it's cheap, and it's not that slow unless you're trying to do everything in a ntfs partition. -m --
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