I am planning to set-up my computer with Windows XP, Red hat 9,
Mandrake 9 and FreeBSD.
Which partitions can be share between them? So far I've figured that I
can share the /swap and /home between the Linux/BSD. What other
partitions can be shared?
Does Linux read and write FAT32? And if so, can I make my /home
partition FAT32 and share it between Linux and Windows?
Any help would be appreciated.

On 18 Oct 2003 15:44:48 -0700, Brian wrote:
> I am planning to set-up my computer with Windows XP, Red hat 9,
> Mandrake 9 and FreeBSD.

> Which partitions can be share between them? So far I've figured that I
> can share the /swap and /home between the Linux/BSD. What other
> partitions can be shared?

Maybe /tmp if disk space is a little tight.

> Does Linux read and write FAT32?

Yes and Mandrake can read NTFS out of the box.

> And if so, can I make my /home
> partition FAT32 and share it between Linux and Windows?

I would vote no.
If you want, find a doze utility to read/write ext2 and ext3.

On 18 Oct 2003 15:44:48 -0700, Brian wrote:
> I am planning to set-up my computer with Windows XP, Red hat 9,
> Mandrake 9 and FreeBSD.

> Which partitions can be share between them? So far I've figured that I
> can share the /swap and /home between the Linux/BSD. What other
> partitions can be shared?

Maybe /tmp if disk space is a little tight.

> Does Linux read and write FAT32?

Yes and Mandrake can read NTFS out of the box.

> And if so, can I make my /home
> partition FAT32 and share it between Linux and Windows?

I would vote no.
If you want, find a doze utility to read/write ext2 and ext3.

Bit Twister <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message news:<slrnbp3hd9.635.BitTwister@wb.home>...
> On 18 Oct 2003 15:44:48 -0700, Brian wrote:
> > I am planning to set-up my computer with Windows XP, Red hat 9,
> > Mandrake 9 and FreeBSD.
>
> > Which partitions can be share between them? So far I've figured that I
> > can share the /swap and /home between the Linux/BSD. What other
> > partitions can be shared?
>
> Maybe /tmp if disk space is a little tight.
>
> > Does Linux read and write FAT32?
>
> Yes and Mandrake can read NTFS out of the box.
>
> > And if so, can I make my /home
> > partition FAT32 and share it between Linux and Windows?
>
> I would vote no.
What I ment by share was to access it. Possible use it for the "My
Documents" and "Home" folder. If not just to have someplace to access
files in both systems.
> If you want, find a doze utility to read/write ext2 and ext3.

In article <ef3c65aa.0310290153.2d3b8917@posting.google.com >, Brian wrote:
> Bit Twister <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message
news:<slrnbp3hd9.635.BitTwister@wb.home>...
>>
>> > And if so, can I make my /home
>> > partition FAT32 and share it between Linux and Windows?
>>
>> I would vote no.
> What I ment by share was to access it. Possible use it for the "My
> Documents" and "Home" folder. If not just to have someplace to access
> files in both systems.

You cannot have a FAT32 home directory because FAT does not understand
permissions. Linux install programs won't mount /home on FAT. You could
try moving it later but I'm pretty sure the system wouldn't even let you
login, certainly not into X.

Of course, you can make a FAT32 partition and put your data there. Then
just link your Windows "My Documents" there, and link it to something like
/home/brian/mydocs in Linux.

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Juha Siltala
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