Partitions

[snowboarder401]

Hi,

I am a newbie. My friend and I got linux (Redhat 7.1) setup on my machine on the second HD. I would like to have my Windows HD see my Linux HD or at least where I keep the data. Is this possible? If so how do I got about doing it? Can I format the data part of my linux partition or drive so it is fat32?

[fancypiper]

Linux can see fat32 but Windows can't see ext2. There is a program available for Windows to read ext2 filesystems, but it only crashed Windows on my system, so I didn't keep a url for it.

Try a search on google.com.

[am/pm]

Hi,
you got several possibilites:

you could indeed format the linux data partition as v/fat but that would make your linux system kind of inefficient i think.

mount your windows system on linux and copy all the files you need under windows over before you log out of linux (big hassle though)

Use some third party software to read your linux files -- a very nice approach i think:
Explore2fs (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm)
Captain Nemo (http://www.runtime.org/captain.htm)

Good luck!