Re: [Staffslug] Windows/Linux shared partition
Don't worry too much I will try and explain :-) Some of the
discussion was more to do with the merits of each option :-)
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:39 PM, JENETTE PALMER
<jenette.palmer(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
I have been trying to follow your thread on this subject. I
can't work out how you decided which file system to use and how you made the selection
(not as clever as you lot).
Both methods would work anyway. One way is installing software so
that Windows can understand a linux filesystem, the other is to use a
Windows filesystem that linux understands (most linux distributions
have NTFS support already installed via a program called NTFS-3G)
this is why on your dual boot machine can read your Windows partition.
Anyway, I have managed to partition my hard disc between
WindowsProfessional 2000 and Kubuntu. I did it on an old computer that I have just in
case I lost all the data. As it happens it works brilliantly and I have not lost any data
etc. However, my computer now tells me that one partition is ext3 and one is swap. I
don't know what this means or how I happened to end up with these. Could you just
explain what I have done. Sorry to be semi hopeless-can you just give me a clue.
EXT3 is the normal filesystem used in Linux, a swap partition is a
special type of filesystem that allows the computer to use it when it
runs low on memory. All that it sounds like is that you have a
perfectly normal linux install :-)
Hope that helps :-)
Jenette
jenette palmer
--- On Sun, 1/11/09, Chris Snow <cr.snow(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Chris Snow <cr.snow(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Windows/Linux shared partition
To: staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk
Date: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 10:33 PM
> Yes, and me and it wouldn't be a closed source file format either :-)
> I may have it wrong and it's ext2 that has MS Windows support?
Yeah, It's in MS's best interests to support an open source file system eh?
2009/11/1 Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com>
> 2009/10/31 Chris Snow <cr.snow(a)gmail.com>:
> > let me put it this way... NTFS support under linux or ext support under
> > windows... I know which I'd trust more with my data!
> >
> Yes, and me and it wouldn't be a closed source file format either :-)
>
> I may have it wrong and it's ext2 that has MS Windows support?
> Whichever, it's the one I'd rather go with. After all, the open
> source version has been built to transparently work with both OS's.
> NTFS has a lot of guess work in there.
>
> The last time I had Linux NTFS problems? A few weeks ago. It simply
> could not read from an external HDD that was NTFS formatted. I ended
> up transferring the data onto a FAT32 formatted HDD and Linux (Ubuntu
> 9.04) read it sweet as a nut then.
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