Re: [Staffslug] Windows/Linux shared partition
2009/10/31 stuart bell <sailing1(a)gmail.com>:
2009/10/31 Russ <russ(a)phillipsuk.org>:
> Hi people,
>
> I'm looking at dual-booting a laptop, and am planning to split the hard
> drive into three partitions, one for Windows, one for Linux, and one
> that both systems can access.
>
> I was going to use FAT32 for the shared partition, because last time I
> did this (some years ago), that was the best option for a partition that
> both Linux & Windows needed to access. However, it has limitations (like
> 2GB maximum file size) that could be problematic. Does anyone have a
> better suggestion for which file system I should use?
Linux has no problem with ntfs.
Hmmm...... supposedly. I do still have to odd time when it does.
Which is why I'm going to be exploring the extfs 3 system on Windows.
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