Hi Greg & Lee, On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 07:54, BandiPat wrote:
On Monday 22 November 2004 03:41 am, Greg Wallace wrote:
I recently converted one of two partitions on a USB hard-drive I have from NTFS to EXT2 so I could use it on my Linux machine <snip>
I tried installing oneof them that I found that was freeware (I think it was called EXT2FS), but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so I ended up trashing it. <snip> Where are you downloading your Windoze free/share/trial ware from? It almost always come with at least one `readme.txt' file. If not that,
I agree with Lee, below, regarding using fat32 instead of ext2 -- with one potential caveat: When I move files from Linux to my Win98SE/fat32 file system -- most of the time, but not always -- an alert is generated to remind me that the permissions did not correctly translate into the fat32 copy. I understand this part, but what happens when you're exchanging or backing up data from the dark side when it's native file system is NTFS? Are Linux and NTFS file security/permissions strategies at all compatible -- assuming there even is one in XP? Does one run into related problems when rotating many file types between the three systems? <snip> there's usually a *.htm which links to their on-line (spyware installing) website with on-line docs an an order form ;-)
Greg, The simple answer would be to make the new partition FAT32 instead of ext2. Doing that would allow your WinXP to read & write as well as your Linux side. Linux can easily take care of the FAT32 partitions. That would give you the best all around setup, if you are needing to transfer files from either or both.
regards, Lee
regards, - Carl