[Nottingham] Shared filesystem
Robert Hart
enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Jan 28 20:39:36 GMT 2004
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 20:16, Joe Wrigley wrote:
> I have a dual boot laptop with Windows XP and Gentoo Linux. I have a
> partition I want to use for data which I have been using to share data
> between the two OSs. I would like to be able to mount the partition on
> /home with useful permissions. A FAT derivative doesn't really fit the
> bill, and ext* isn't supported in any low-level way in windows
> (explore2fs can be useful, but I want something that works in a more
> "native" way). Is there any file system that can be used by both OSs,
> more useful than FAT?
Not really. I think your best bet is to mount the partition somewhere
else, and then symlink relevant bits of it into your home directory.
Rob
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