sharing hard disk between w2k & linux on the same m/c

[Vimala L]

Hello there.

My m/c has dual OS - windows2000 and linux(red hat 7.3).

I have a spare hard disk in the m/c and I want to use that disk as data disk and make it accessible by both the OS. What is the File system type should I set it to? I formatted it as NTFS under w2k and I can't see the disk when I boot with Linux.

Thanks in advance,
Vimala.

[I_M]

Hi

If you enable NTFS support in "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" then reconfigure your kenel, then you will be able to read NTFS from Linux.
I am not sure current NTFS driver support R/W or Read ONLY. It was said NTFS driver is read only.

Talking about from WIN2K to Linux,
you will not see the Linux partition from Win2K file manager.

You may use following.
http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.htm

I think use fat partition for your data exchange purpose is the best.

Good luck

[Steven Mertens]

hi,

I think writing to an ntfs partition from
linux is still experimental , so theres
the possibility you can have data corruption.

regards,

steven

[A Ottenheimer · Accepted solution]

If you want to share the data in full
on both machines in a non-experimental mode
then partition that disk as vfat. In
Linux's fdisk it will show up as "Win95 FAT32" ; in Win2k the option is FAT32.

To mount that disk so you can see in in
Linux you have to....
1) Create a directory
e.g. (mkdir /mnt/shared)

2) Mount the drive
e.g. (mount -t vfat /dev/whatever /mnt/shared)

(You may already have NTFS support in your kernel so try "mount -t nfts ....." for fun.)




A

[Mark Fenton]

I mount NTFS disks to share between linux and win2k with no problems EXCEPT that linux doesn't handle the permissions very well. It will read files, but sometimes has trouble with writing. << Probably that's the experimental part -- still a few bugs to work out >>

hth
Mark