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shared drives

10 August 2002, 12:53

I plan to dual boot Linux and Win98. I have 3 drives for windows and 2 for Linux. I'm going to make 1 drive / and the other /home. Now the question is should I use fat32 for /home or should I just make it reiser/ext3 and make copies onto the windows drive?

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10 August 2002, 12:57

Using fat32 for /home isn't really an option. You can't have file ownership or permissions on a FAT32 drive. I have an ext2 setup, and there is a windows program called explore2fs that lets me read the drive from within Windows, so I can just copy what I need when I need it. The other way to do it is to copy onto the Windows partition from Linux, but I don't know if you can/want to try it if it's NTFS 5. You could have a gig or two of FAT32 set aside so that both can read/write to it.
This should work just fine with ext3 as well.

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