Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-05-10 Thread Liviu
1. install the windows ext2/3 driver.2. install rfsd (http://rfsd.sourceforge.net) to access reiserfs partitions. An alternative for accessingin read-only mode Linux drives isTotalCommander'sExt2+Reiser plugin. Ext2 and ext3 work fine. Never tried ReiserFS. Plugin to open Ext2 and Reiser file

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 23 April 2006 03:00 Neil Bothwick was like: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:05:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Howsabout using FAT32 (aka vfat) for the data partitions that need to be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Both Windows and Linux can read and write easily to vfat. FAT has a

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:05:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Howsabout using FAT32 (aka vfat) for the data partitions that need to be accessed by both Windows and Linux? Both Windows and Linux can read and write easily to vfat. FAT has a 4GB file size limit under Windows, 2GB under Linux, which

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:11:55PM -0700, Robert Persson wrote The questions I have are: 1. What file system should I use for shared storage and scratchspace between the two OSs? 2. Would it be feasible and worthwhile to stripe a linux scratchspace volume across both disks? QUESTION 1:

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:11:55 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate my old 40GB disk and a

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 20 April 2006 00:46 Neil Bothwick was like: Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate my old 40GB disk and a

[gentoo-user] partitioning for multimedia performance and dual-booting linux/windex

2006-04-19 Thread Robert Persson
I have just acquired a nice big PATA disk and am now faced with the job of deciding how to partition it. I actually have two questions and I would be grateful for any thoughts. The current disk is a 40GB 133MHz one with 1MB cache. The new one is 250GB, 133MHz with 8MB cache. The reason for the