Mike McMullin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote: > >> Mike McMullin wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Clayton wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>> I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a >>>>>> different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, <sigh> >>>>>> >>>>>> Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions >>>>> are Reiser, my XP partition was NTFS. Linux can read NTFS with no >>>>> problems... so on the rare occasion I needed to snag a file from the >>>>> XP partition, I can. On the other hand if I happened to be booted to >>>>> Windows (err.. something I haven't done in ages) I had a small util >>>>> installed there that could read Reiser partitions... so I could copy >>>>> from the Linux partitions to the NTFS partitions. >>>>> >>>>> OK, it's one way.. copying from the foreign fs to the local... but it >>>>> works.. and no risk of corrupting the foreign fs because you're >>>>> accessing in ro mode. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> What I did on my notebook, was create a FAT32 partition and move the "My >>>> Documents" folder to it. This way either OS can read & write the files. >>>> >>>> >>> Did you create the mount point at the usual location on C: root? >>> >>> >>> >> No, Windows drives get mounted under /windows, so this would be mounted >> on /windows/d. I also created a link to my home directory, where it >> appears as another folder. >> > > Interesting I dug into XP(Home)'s help on mounting drives and it said > that you can use any unused folder. I've been tempted to set up a > separate partition for all the user documents, kind of like a /home, and > see if I can get this to fly under XP. I'm afraid that this would take > some heavy kludging on my part and outright snarf everything at a > re-install. > > It's not as easy in Windows, as in Linux (so what else is new) and IIRC, the procedure for "My Documents" is different from other folders.
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