On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 06:43 -0500, Kevin K wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>
> > My dual-booting, actually tri-booting, with Vista (ugh!), Centos
> > (brilliant) and Fedora 14 (not keen and a bit seriously buggy) allows me
> > in Linux to access and change the file space content used by the other
> > two operating systems. Surely that constitutes simultaneous access to
> > storage?
> >
> If you are tri-booting, how are you accessing the file systems of the other
> OS's "at the same time"? Don't you have to reboot to change OS's?
No re-booting is necessary when running Centos 5.5. Besides I am 'lazy'
and hate re-booting because it so time wasting.
On one machine running Centos 5.5 I have in /etc/fstab
/dev/sda5 /nos.f14 ext4 auto 0 0
/nos.f14 is a pre-created, but empty, directory used as the mounting
point for, in this instance, Fedora 14.
On another machine (the tri-boot machine) I also run Centos 5.5 and in
that /etc/fstab I have
/dev/sda3 /z-vista/ ntfs-3g auto,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /z-fedora/ ext4 defaults 1 2
The z-vista and z-fedora are empty root directories used as mounting
points. Obviously you can use any name you prefer.
Being honest I have to point-out that I can not remember what the 0 0 or
the 1 2 actually mean.
It works. I can access and change the Vista 'drive' contents and the
also the entire Fedora 'drive'. If I wanted to access, on that machine,
Vista's two extra drives (System & Resources) then I would add
to /etc/fstab something like
/dev/sda1 /z-system/ ntfs-3g auto,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /z-resources/ ntfs-3g auto,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
Hope that helps.
With best regards,
Paul.
England,
EU.
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