[Nottingham] Shared filesystem

[Robert Hart]

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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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>