Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Joseph A Gumbosky <joegum@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sunny wrote:
>
> I usually go with another approach. I do not spare a FAT32 partition.
> Linux can read NTFS, so when you need to work on something, just copy
> it from the NTFS system to your linux partition.
>
> There are tools for windows as well which can read ext2/3 and reiser
> partitions, so when you need to, you can copy back to windows and
> continue your work.
>
> Yes, it is no so good, as you keep 2 copies of the files, but solves
> all these headaches with the shrinking of a partition, creating a new
> one, etc.
>
> And ... after all, I do need less and less to boot windows anyway.
>
> --
> --
> Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
>
>   
Hmm.. This is an approach I hadn't thought of..  I'll investigate.

Thanks,

-Joe