Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:46:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep > all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS > [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I > know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am > worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in > FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence > [bit torrents]). Any ideas? > > BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the > OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes Make a FAT32 primary partition if you want FreeBSD to be able to write as well as read the space. Remember that only 4 primary partitions / slices can be made and each thing will require one of them eg maybe Slice 1 = MS, 2 = FAT32, Linux = 3, FreeBSD = 4 might work. I have never done any testing writing/reading FAT32 from FreeBSD. It seems not to have any delays. jerry > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence [bit torrents]). Any ideas? BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm using ext2 for my data partiton. Works like a charm for me ( Using http://www.fs-driver.org/ for WinXP and sysutils/e2fsprogs ) Only thing that can be anoying is when FreeBSD crashes and I have to fsck my entire data partiton which can take a while. But possibly this can be avoided by using ext3 instead of ext2 (But the utilities are the same ). Good luck, -- -Frank Staals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
Frank Staals wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep >> all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS >> [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I >> know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am >> worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in >> FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence >> [bit torrents]). Any ideas? >> BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the >> OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> > For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm using ext2 for my > data partiton. Works like a charm for me ( Using > http://www.fs-driver.org/ for WinXP and sysutils/e2fsprogs ) Only > thing that can be anoying is when FreeBSD crashes and I have to fsck > my entire data partiton which can take a while. But possibly this can > be avoided by using ext3 instead of ext2 (But the utilities are the > same ). If that is the program I am thinking of I tried it on vista and it doesn't work (I tried a fair number of things that claimed to support extX FS's and all of them where a) non-funcitonal on vista [even in compat mode], b) didn't allow for direct mounting in windows, c) where reasonable priced [less then $50]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data
I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence [bit torrents]). Any ideas? BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
