Re: Dual boot Debian/Windows question
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:37:17 -0700, 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)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
If your NT partition is NTFS then you cannot write to it from Linux. The
safest bet is a DOS partion that can be read and written to by both OSes.
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