On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:37:05 +1100 Elliott-Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I gather that formatting the shared partition as VFAT is an option, but > that it may be too slow for my intentions. > > Has anyone any experience around this, or with ideas about the best way > to manage what I'm wishing to do? You'll be stuck with vfat or NTFS until Microsoft decides to add Unix filesystem support in Windows (when hell freezes over). NTFS is great under Linux unless you want to use it for anything useful, but vfat works reasonably well for everything else. Of course, there are a couple of Windows utilities for accessing data in Ext2/3 and Reiserfs filesystems: YAReG: http://yareg.akucom.de/ Explore2fs: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm The Reiserfs stuff is read only, but Explore2fs has write support (for ext2 only though). Both have reasonable guis (although you'll have to download Microsoft's .Net framework to get the YAReG going). I'd just stick with VFAT - I haven't noticed too many problems with it when i've used it for doing similar things to what you're looking for. On a side note, OSnews ran a neat article about problems with vfat earlier this month. Quite a good read: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9681 Lindsay -- http://asymmetrics.net/~auxesis -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
