>
> The problem comes when something on the web needs something in the
> homework. I either have to contact the web from the dark side and risk
> all the bad stuff or I have to move the homework to the Linux side. This
> is what I need to do. At the eat/drink meeting the word was to set up a
> shared folder. Since my dark side is NTFS I have been thinking of using
> a separate partition in FAT 32.
>
> I hope this explains it a little better. If you had been in on the
> original discussion I guess you would have been more privy to the
> details. I hope this clarifies it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
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You can read everything in NTFS by just using your file browser.
Different Distros handle things
variably. Many will let you see your Windows Partitions OK but labeled
differently. Xandros for
one labels them the same as Windows. The issue comes if you want to
write to NTFS. That could
totally trash your Windows since the Win manager doesn't know what the
hell happened while
it was off. There are ways to write to NTFS, but I wouldn't do it on
something I didn't care
about trashing.
I have SUSE 9.2 Pro, XANDROS 2.0, and Pro MEPIS in my computer and have
never had a problem
reading and writing to FAT.
I have even done things like using two file manager windows running in
XANDROS and dragging
my wife's Mozilla bookmarks file from Windows 98SE into the second
window open to the Linux
Mozilla location for bookmarks. I did first delete the set bookmarks
file in XANDROS so that I would
not have duplicate file name problem. Her Windows bookmarks work
perfectly in the Linux Mozilla
browser. I labeled her old Win98 mail file as old and drug them into
Linux. My wife doesn't use
Windows anymore.
If you don't have a FAT32 Partition, I would first defrag your Win
Partition. If you already have an
extra Win partition, QPARTED in Linux can change it to FAT32. If you
need to resize stuff to make
one, QPARTED can do that to. I have never lost anything doing that, but
there is always some risk,so
back up anything you want to keep.
Richard Smoot
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