Domin
01-26-2002, 09:37 PM
If I install Windows XP and linux (redhat 7.2) on the same system will linux be able to access files on the windows partition and vice versa?
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sarah31
01-26-2002, 09:41 PM
do you mean access win files through linux and vise versa or boot into one or the other?
Domin
01-26-2002, 09:44 PM
Access files.
sarah31
01-26-2002, 09:51 PM
I think that there is a way but I am not sure. Sorry!
Perhaps you should change the title to accesing files or more along the lines of what you want to do.
[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: sarah31 ]
Perhaps you should change the title to accesing files or more along the lines of what you want to do.
[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: sarah31 ]
bdl
01-26-2002, 10:05 PM
Yes, you can compile NTFS support into your kernel and mount the Win XP (or 2K/NT) partition, and there are a couple of apps that allow Windows to access EXT2. What I normally do, though, is create a completely seperate FAT or FAT32 partition and just stick all the files I want to share between OS's on that, and you can easily mount FAT/FAT32 filesystems read-write with either OS (BSD also).
At this time, NTFS read support works very well, I have used it myself. NTFS read-write support is included, but experimental. Proceed at your own risk. Luck!
You might already have NTFS support in the default Redhat kernel, try to load the 'ntfs' module before anything else.
# modprobe ntfs
[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: bdl ]
At this time, NTFS read support works very well, I have used it myself. NTFS read-write support is included, but experimental. Proceed at your own risk. Luck!
You might already have NTFS support in the default Redhat kernel, try to load the 'ntfs' module before anything else.
# modprobe ntfs
[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: bdl ]
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