Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 07:10 am, Roland Turcan wrote:
> Hello suse-linux-e!
>
> I'm developing software in Delphi / Kylix. Lot of things are the same
> on both version of software. I'm using WinMerge to compare sources and
> managing between platforms.
>
> I need to have a place on harddisk which I can write and read from
> Windows and Linux too, I'm always copying Linux sources from Windows
> partition to Linux and if I make some changes I have to copy it back.
> Lot of times I make some mistakes and then I'm spending time to
> finding which copy of Linux sources is newer.
>
> I have two harddisks in my computer:
>
> 1. Fixed disk in case (main HDD for Windows)
> 2. removable in IDE rack (this is for Linux)
>
> I have my documentations in flash disk because only this one is
> read/write device for my in this moment, but this is very slow and
> very small for storing all files of Linux project.
>
> Thanks for all ideas.

Create a FAT partition.  Both OSs should be able to read from and write to it.  
Funny you should ask this.  I was just thinking that the ability to read 
Reiser FS from Windows would be handy at times.

Steven