On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:52:17AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> I also read that if you mount >>> windows xp as vfat you can write to it. Even more sceptical. >> >> What do you mean by that? You can safely mount fat partitions for a long >> time now. > > Yup, been there, done that, it works fine. It has consequences for the XP > side, though -- VFAT doesn't support alternate data streams or file > permissions, so you lose some functionality. Those features are mostly > only useful if you have multiple users on one machine, though. > > Note that you have to install XP from the start on a FAT partition -- > Microsoft has tools to let you convert FAT to NTFS, but there's no way to > go back without reformatting. > > A good alternative I've sometimes used is to create a second, FAT-formatted > partition and use it for stuff I want to access from both operating > systems. Unless you forget to copy the important stuff and have to reboot... Recently I've been experimenting with ext2fsd (which despite its name can also read ext3) and ntfs-3g. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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