Re: Dual boot Debian/Windows question

[Kirk Lowery <klowery@whi.wts.edu>]

Mark Phillips wrote:

> My laptop is set up to dual boot Debian (sid) and Windows 2000. What 
> is the best way to be able to share files between the two OSs?
>
> The Linux howtwo on this subject warns about directly mounting My 
> Documents from Windows in Linux, and suggests creating a separate 
> vfat partition to share files. Is that really necessary? What are the
>  reasons (they were not mentioned in the article)?

I have mounted Windows partitions on dual boot laptops and desktops
for years and had no problems. Of course, there will be the usual
DOS/UNIX line termination issues.

I make a directory /dosc

drwxrwxrwx   18 root     root        16384 Dec 31  1969 dosc

In /etc/fstab I have an entry:

/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat   defaults,rw,user,umask=0   0  0

And it's mounted at boot time. Your Windows device may be different.
Note: the file system is vfat, *not* ntfs. If your Windows partition is
ntfs, then there are all kinds of warnings about mounting such a
partition as read-write in the howto's.

HTH.

Kirk
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