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. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org