Hi
I am awaiting the arrival of my ThinkPad and when it arrives I have some RAM and internal wireless card and a 60GB hard drive to slap in it.
Im intending on running Ubuntu and XP Home on it. Ive dual booted before no problems.
What I would like to do is have a small 10GB partition for each OS to install on and the rest for a place to save files so I can access it from both OSes.
Am I correct in thinking to have read/write from both Ubuntu and XP the 'files' partition would need to be FAT32 and not NTFS?
Simon
On 13 December 2010 10:24, Simon Royal mrsimonroyal@gmail.com wrote:
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Am I correct in thinking to have read/write from both Ubuntu and XP the 'files' partition would need to be FAT32 and not NTFS?
This was the case a few years back but Ubuntu supports read/write to NTFS with the 3G fuse drivers.
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
will sort that out.
Similarly, there's a freebie app for Windows that allows it to read ext3. http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html#acc_ext3 http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html
If you're going the whole hog, using the Ubuntu install as your "main" OS on the laptop, I'd go for a small partition for XP, leave the rest of the space to Ubuntu and access the files in /home/user on Windows using the above app.
Cheers, Simon
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Simon Royal