On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 7:15am, you wrote:
I have a standard (well out of the box) Suse 7.2 install on a dual boot Thinkpad. There are 4 partitions: hda1 NTFS - For Win2k (Obviously) hda2 ext2 - For /boot hda3 Fat32 - For data storage hda4 ext2 - For suse
I want to be able to share hda3 between the two os's. All the reading I've seen says that to mount a fat32 using vfat and read only because corruption may occur. Any comments on this. Are those documents on the suse site current or do those relate to older versions? What is the correct way to mount this partition so that both OS's can read/write to it?
There is no known problem I have witnessed or had happen to me with FAT32, but there is some evidence about NTFS. If you try writing to a NTFS partition you can corrupt data although I have not yet (touch wood) had any diverse effects, but I am now installing an nfs server, so I will be investigating using samba with these servers instead of risking data corruption with NTFS. ciao -- Rob Davies rjdarts@dingoblue.net.au ICQ: 10432219 "To converse, is one strategy that separates us, from the Apes." -- Rob Davies rjdart5@dingoblue.net.au ICQ: 10432219 "To converse, is one strategy that separates us, from the Apes."
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