RE: compatible FS between linux and wind

[Darryl Barlow <darrylb@iprimus.com.au>]

The best solution if you want to use ntfs for windows is probably to create a 
small vfat partition to use to transfer files.  Linux can read ntfs with no 
problems. but write support is experimental and dangerous.  So far as Windows 
is concerned, I am not aware of any applications which would allow it to read 
any of the usual Linux file systems other than ext2.  A search on Google may 
turn you up some useful results.  However, as I understand ext3 is basically 
ext2 with a journal explore2fs (which was suggested in a previous reply) may 
be able to operate on such a partition.

Dual-booting is a great idea whilst you experiment with Linux, though after a 
while you may well find your Windows partition can be put to better uses.

Darryl