You want Windows 2000 to be able to read and write to your linux partitions? For safety's sake I think you should make seperate partitions for your operating systems core files, then make a stand-alone partition (70GB or so?) which both OSes will use with R/W. This way you have a shared data area without risking damage to the partitions containing either OS. I haven't used the NTFS write-support in the kernels, as I consider it "untrusted". The fact that it says "DANGEROUS!!!" next to the menu option also encourages me to avoid it. Being that it's untrusted, I recommend against letting it write to critical NTFS partitions. So far as having 2000 be able to read ext2, I've never heard of such a thing. If you find something like that, please post a link. Garrett ----- Original Message ----- From: "simply service" To: Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:03 PM Subject: 160 GB win/linux storage > 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss