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Sharing a partition
Name: TinManTino Date: October 10, 2008 at 16:00:05 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Ultima CPU/Ram: AMD Athalon 64 X2 Du Product: Custom
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Here is what im hoping im gonna be able to, I want to make a partition just for Vista just the OS, and one for Linux, and using the rest to make the biggest partition where stuff will get installed and stored for both the OS's, now my question is this, is that possible, to share a partition like that? I appreciate any help I can get.
PS. I don't want to just split my hard drive into two for each operating system because I don't know how much space im gonna need for each one after a years worth of installs, so I thought if they could just share one big one that would make things easier.
Name: RTAdams89 Date: October 10, 2008 at 16:41:34 Pacific
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Yes. You make 3 partitions (C:, D:, and E:) as windows will refer to them. Install Vista on C:, Linux of D:, and your data/programs on E:. When in Vista, you will be able to use C: and E:. When in Linux, you will be able to access all 3 partitions.
Name: TinManTino Date: October 10, 2008 at 16:44:09 Pacific
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Thank you very much for that information, I appreciate your help.
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Response Number 3
Name: RTAdams89 Date: October 10, 2008 at 16:51:29 Pacific
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In Windows, the three partitions (perhaps two depending on how the Linux partition is formatted) will just show up under "My Computer" automatically. You can follow these steps in Linux to get your "E:" data drive: http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/top...
Name: sunil_datta Date: October 24, 2008 at 02:55:04 Pacific
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if you want to mount ntfs partition, you may read
For mounting fat partition you need not to load any module. You just need to know which partition(device) to mount and where to mount e.g. mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /windows/
If you want to avoid this each time you start linux. You will have to manually edit /etc/fstab file.
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Response Number 7
Name: TinManTino Date: October 24, 2008 at 04:22:02 Pacific
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