Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2714 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Clayton wrote:
> >> I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a
> >> different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, <sigh>
> >>
> >> Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue.
> >
> > The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions
> > are Reiser, my XP partition was NTFS.  Linux can read NTFS with no
> > problems... so on the rare occasion I needed to snag a file from the
> > XP partition, I can.  On the other hand if I happened to be booted to
> > Windows (err.. something I haven't done in ages) I had a small util
> > installed there that could read Reiser partitions... so I could copy
> > from the Linux partitions to the NTFS partitions.
> >
> > OK, it's one way.. copying from the foreign fs to the local... but it
> > works.. and no risk of corrupting the foreign fs because you're
> > accessing in ro mode.
> 
> What I did on my notebook, was create a FAT32 partition and move the "My
> Documents" folder to it.  This way either OS can read & write the files.

  Did you create the mount point at the usual location on C: root?

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