[Gllug] Win&Lin accessible filesystems

[Paul Brazier]

I've got a dual-boot Win2K/Linux PC and I want to have a partition
accessible (r/w) to both OSs.

NTFS doesn't seem to be supported as standard by my kernel and looking
at the "make xconfig" it looks like it's a little experimental (the
write part at least). This seems strange as NTFS has been around a while
- is it due to MS keeping the specs secret or something?

I also have a partition under Windows which fdisk says is "Win Ext'd
(LBA)" (type f) - can I mount this and what switch do I need (I've
looked through "man mount" but can't find it).

What would be the best filesystem to use that works r/w with both OSs if
I re-format the partition? VFAT?

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Paul Brazier
Cosmos UK 


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