Re: a small update on my situation...

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On 29 Dec 2002, Tony Dietrich wrote:

> I'm not a win2k expert, but since you don't need win2k to be on NTFS,
> why not scrap that partition (backup the current data onto the linux or
> win2k partition for a while) and reformat it to FAT32?
> Linux can natively read/write to FAT32 (but NOT to NTFS) partitions, as
> can win2k, so sharing data via a FAT32 partition shouldn't be a problem.
> (This is your solution #2)
> Just place ALL your music/media/data onto the FAT32 partition, then both
> OS can read it.
> Then you don't need the NTFS module :P (personally, I don't trust it.)

i've done exactly this on a number of occasions.  make the system
partition NTFS, and have a second FAT32 partition strictly for your
data files.  then you can share that partition trivially between
both OSes.

rday