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Hi,
I have Red Hat Linux 8.0 loaded on the PC with 10GB partition. It also has XP (30 GB). How can I work with the files of Windows XP when I am working in Linux. Is it possible to view Linux files in XP? Any ideas/help requested.
thanks and regards,
Ramachandra.
How did you format your XP partition? If it
is in FAT you are in luck as linux can read
and write to FAT with no problems. If it is
in NTFS, linux write support is still
experimental so you are advised to only read
NTFS in case you corrupt the file system.
If you want to keep your XP on NTFS (eg for
file permissions), you may want to create
another partition formatted to FAT for
sharing files between the two OSs, eg:
10Gb -> XP OS (NTFS)
10Gb -> Linux OS (ext3 or reiser etc)
20Gb -> Sharing Partition (FAT)
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This seems to be a hot topic these days....I'm in the midst of doing the same thing. I bought SuSE Linux, but it cannot partition NTFS on XP (pre-installed, recovery uses NTFS also). Taking this question a bit further, the three partiion setup sounds good....I've also heard of putting Windows apps in another partition. Any truth to this? Can't wait to get this up!
Happy Trails!
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Sure. You can install any program to another partition. A few files get written to the registry and Windows, but the bulk of the install will go on the drive you specify... Is that what you were asking?
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Well, I know you can do this my question being more along the lines of efficiency versus convenience.
Is it worth putting together a partiton specific for applications? Is it more efficient?
Isn't this in the Linux forum? ... lol
Thanks
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I've been running a three partition setup for several years now. One additional benefit to this is that I can wipe either OS and still keep my data files intact.
In situations where I have only one OS installed, I use two partitions for the same reason. It's saved my butt.
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What is the best way to share the files? It appears that Linux would see the partition as /windows/F (or whatever drive letter is used for the share). Should I just point my home directory structure to write there (/windows/F)? Or, is there another method you would reccommend? I want to keep all my apps installed under the OS, but, like you all, share files between the two OSs.
PS-SuSE Linux 8.2 gets a big thumbs up thus far. Where is the 'blue screen of death'?
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Having a separate FAT partition for windoze
applications could be useful for people
running wine. Setup of windoze apps is
sometimes a problem under linux. One way
round is to boot into windoze, install the
app then boot back into linux to run the
files.
I wouldn't point my home directory to a FAT
partition (file permission problems etc),
just create a link to it instead, eg:
$ ln -s /mnt/windows ~/
drsmartman....
You'll find the 'blue screen of death' in
SuSE in the screensaver section
(BSOD)!=o)
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You can you use the ntfs driver from the ntfs project http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ that gives you the ability to read your files on the nfts partition, you can choose to write as well but bewared you are most likely to damage your file system on the ntfs partition,the ntfs project has great support for redhat systems because redhat is the only linux distro that doen’t provide ntfs support out of the box. The drivers is childs play to install.
If you want read/write ability then the share partition is the way to go but for me I use the the driver to read/copy over files and listen to my large mp3 collection on my winxp pro partition.
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