On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 17:06 +1000, linley caetan wrote: > It looks like there is no way that I can make windows play nice with EXT3. > So Am I better off wiping the linux partition, making an extra vfat or > ntfs partition for data and smaller partition for my ubuntu installation? > Are there better alternatives for making winxp play nicely with linux?
The usual way to do it is to create a separate vfat partition to share data. But don't wipe the linux partition just yet. Ubuntu has a tool called gparted that can resize partitions. It claims to support ntfs, but I've never tried it. Unfortunately, gparted won't work on mounted partitions, so you won't be able to use it alone to resize your linux partition. If you're comfortable with the commandline, then it might be worth looking in to gparted's CLI brother, parted. Documentation and boot disk images can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html . Cheers, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
