Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2714 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> Mike McMullin wrote:
>>     
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> No, Windows drives get mounted under /windows, so this would be mounted 
>> on /windows/d.  I also created a link to my home directory, where it 
>> appears as another folder.
>>     
>
>   Interesting  I dug into XP(Home)'s help on mounting drives and it said
> that you can use any unused folder.  I've been tempted to set up a
> separate partition for all the user documents, kind of like a /home, and
> see if I can get this to fly under XP.  I'm afraid that this would take
> some heavy kludging on my part and outright snarf everything at a
> re-install.
>
>   
It's not as easy in Windows, as in Linux (so what else is new) and IIRC,
the procedure for "My Documents" is different from other folders.

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