160 GB win/linux storage

[Gene Holmerud]

If you are interested in compressing an existing
partition to make room for Linux, try DriveWorks (Same
publishers as System Comander).  It's very flexible,
but slow.  It knows most of the file systems (ext2,
but the version I have doesn't mention Journalized,
ext3).

Gene
--- simply service <simplyservice@mobile.rogers.com>
wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to
> best format a 160 GB partition so a dual boot
> windows 2000 pro / linux 2.4.20 system could have
> the data available for both with reliable read/write
> access.  I need it to be 1 partition because I'll be
> storing everything there that I want to keep and I'm
> not sure what is going to grow fastest of what I
> collect.  I tried ntfs which I formatted in linux
> with ntfstools and windows recognized it ok, but
> after writing lots of data to it it would refuse to
> mount it R/W in linux even with R/W options in the
> kernel.  So are there any other filesystems that I
> can use?  Fat32 won't handle the size, are there any
> good ext2/ext3/reiserfs drivers for win2k that
> aren't commercial?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Jason Pfingstmann
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