Thanks Tom. I guess the only difference is I want to use a couple hundred GB for this purpose. I think I've heard FAT32 has a pretty good reputation for fragmenting quickly and not working very well with larger drive sizes. Is this true? I'll be formatting 2x 500GB partitions and 2x 250GB partitions for this purpose.
Thanks again, Mat On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Tom Whitten<thomas.whitten at sun.com> wrote: > Mat writes: >> I've been playing around with Linux quite a bit the past few years. I've >> been using Gentoo for most of the time, then switched to Arch because there >> was quite a bit less maintenance required but still offered the same amount >> of flexibility. Then I switched to Kubuntu because I wanted very low >> maintenance and very high ease of use. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu and I'm not >> sure what else I can try in terms of linux distributions that will offer >> something new to me. >> >> So here I am. I found out about opensolaris about this time last year and >> tried it in Virtualbox and was pleased. So I decided to install it in it's >> own partition. The only problems I've run into so far are that my sound card >> doesnt have drivers installed, my network cards dont have drivers installed >> and need third party drivers, and I cant mount my ext3 drives. >> >> I have a working Windows install which I used to download the 3rd party >> drivers for my network cards onto my data drive (EXT3). Now I know I could >> put the files in a USB drive or cd and then copy them over but I want to be >> able to use my Ext3 partitions in OpenSolaris. The reason I dont want to >> change the filesystem is because I'll keep a copy of windows and maybe a >> linux distribution and I want these files accessible from all OSes. >> >> What can I do? Is there a filesystem that is fully compatible with >> OpenSolaris that I can also use in Linux and Windows? >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-help mailing list >> opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > > > There's the good old FAT filesystem from DOS and Windows pre NT days. ?I > always keep a partition of at least a few hundred megabytes on my multiboot > machines for this purpose. ?I format it with a FAT file system, which > Linux, Solaris and even Windows can read. > > By the way this file system is know as psfs on Solaris. ?My /etc/vfstab > entry looks like this: > > #device ? ? ? ? device ? ? ? ? ?mount ? ? ? ? ? FS ? ? ?fsck ? ?mount ? mount > #to mount ? ? ? to fsck ? ? ? ? point ? ? ? ? ? type ? ?pass ? ?at boot > options > /dev/dsk/c0d0p2 - ? ? ? ? ? ? ? /interchange ? ?pcfs ? ?- ? ? ? no ? ? > ?nohidden,nofoldcase > > You're device designation will most likely be different. > > tom >
