Norm Higgs wrote: > IMHO, you don't want or need the Linux system to be able to write to the > Windows system partition and vice versa. Best to make a common FAT32 > partition for data files that will be common to both operating systems > and keep the OS partitions totally separated from each other. Too risky > IMO, for one system could easily trash the file system of the other. >
This is exactly what I did for my Samba shares, which reside on my Linux Red Hat machine, and are accessed by W2k and OpenBSD machines. Mostly, these share are just file repositories, which see files written to them only once, and are only very rarely modified. Because of the way msdos file systems store things, FAT32 will fragment files much more than *nix-type file systems, if there are a lot of rewrites to the files, which is something worth keeping in mind, over the long term. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
