Here's another option you may want to consider,
How about a small FAT32 partition specifically for sharing files
between your OSes?
Good luck
Micah
On 12/21/05, Micah DesJardins <
micahdj@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/05, joe <joe@tlnf.com> wrote:
> > On my dual boot system, while logged into Linux, I can cd /mnt/windows and
> > view all the files on the windows partition, but they are all r-xr-xr-x and
> > even as root, I cannot copy a file or write to a file or change file
> > permissions on a file in the winxp partition. Why is that? Surely there must
> > be some way to overcome this barrier. What's the secret?
>
> Simply put, it's a bit risky to read/write NTFS on Linux because NTFS
> is a closed standard owned by Microsoft and they do not publish how
> NTFS works. Reading the format is fine, because the worst that
> happens is something gets read a little garbled but nothing
> intrinsically 'bad' happens.
>
> There are projects (notably Captive and the linux-ntfs project) that
> do support writing but they are considered far from polished and if
> you do choose to enable read/write capability on your NTFS partitions
> under Linux I would advise you to keep full and frequent backups.
>
> Micah
>
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