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Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP



On Thursday 14 August 2008 13:39:50 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu,14.Aug.08, 00:59:46, Anton Liaukevich wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > [solution 2] /home/ partition is NTFS. www.ntfs-3g.org says that ntfs-3g
> > Linux read/write driver supports ownership/permissions under Linux (using
> > mapping of users). Unfortunately (as I know) Debian-Installer doesn't
> > support ntfs-partition mounting (to /home/). Additionally I will need to
> > configure user mappings after D-I in order to access users' file by
> > ordinary user). Also I'm afraid of law speed of this ntfs-3g driver. Do I
> > need to install "ntfs-3g" package and change "ntfs" type to "ntfs-3g" in
> > order to use this driver (my current driver also supports read/write)?
> > What is www.linux-ntfs.org project and how it pertains to ntfs-3g?
>
> Not the entire /home, but only an ntfs partition mounted on /home/pub
> with the right permission to be accessible by who needs it.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei

There is a ext2/ext3 driver for windows if you really want to share partitions 
like this..

Mihira.


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