John Kaufmann wrote: > In a message dated 2009.04.11 20:26 -0500, James Knott wrote: > >> If you have sufficient disk space, you can have both Linux & Windows on >> the same computer. That way, you only have to boot Windows to use those >> apps that won't run on Linux. Incidentally, many Windows apps can run >> on Linux, by using a utility called "wine" or Crossover Office, which is >> a commercial implementation of wine. One thing I do, is create a FAT32 >> partition, which I move my "My Documents" folder to. This partition can >> be written to by both Linux & Windows, so you can share files between >> the two operating system. > > Or you can run Ext2IFS on the Windows side, which installs the Ext2 FS > driver in the Windows OS, allowing Windows access to the common /home > partition (and any other Ext2/3 partition). It runs at full speed and > is totally transparent, allowing Windows to run as needed while still > having the superior file system - and it makes it easy to drop Windows > when you no longer need it. >
Somehow, I just don't trust Windows writing to a Linux partition. ;-) However, you'd still have to create a partition either way, as I don't think you can move the My Documents folder anywhere, other than to an empty partition. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
