On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Mike McMullin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> >   
> >> Clayton wrote:
> >>     
> >>>> I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a
> >>>> different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, <sigh>
> >>>>
> >>>> Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue.
> >>>>         
> >>> The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions
> >>> are Reiser, my XP partition was NTFS.  Linux can read NTFS with no
> >>> problems... so on the rare occasion I needed to snag a file from the
> >>> XP partition, I can.  On the other hand if I happened to be booted to
> >>> Windows (err.. something I haven't done in ages) I had a small util
> >>> installed there that could read Reiser partitions... so I could copy
> >>> from the Linux partitions to the NTFS partitions.
> >>>
> >>> OK, it's one way.. copying from the foreign fs to the local... but it
> >>> works.. and no risk of corrupting the foreign fs because you're
> >>> accessing in ro mode.
> >>>       
> >> What I did on my notebook, was create a FAT32 partition and move the "My
> >> Documents" folder to it.  This way either OS can read & write the files.
> >>     
> >
> >   Did you create the mount point at the usual location on C: root?
> >
> >   
> No, Windows drives get mounted under /windows, so this would be mounted 
> on /windows/d.  I also created a link to my home directory, where it 
> appears as another folder.

  Interesting  I dug into XP(Home)'s help on mounting drives and it said
that you can use any unused folder.  I've been tempted to set up a
separate partition for all the user documents, kind of like a /home, and
see if I can get this to fly under XP.  I'm afraid that this would take
some heavy kludging on my part and outright snarf everything at a
re-install.

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