...or You can save yourself a heck of a lot of money and simply use a FAT16 or FAT32 partition to share data between the two operating systems. While I do understand the nicety and "Cool" Factor relating to running one OS inside of another OS, there are significant costs involved that make that quite a headache cost-wise. Go with the "Free" Solution of using FAT16 or FAT32, both Linux and ALL Modern versions of Windows can mount up a FAT16 or FAT32 partition. -Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: ext3-users-admin@redhat.com [mailto:ext3-users-admin@redhat.com] On > Behalf Of Cecchi, Gianluca > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:23 AM > To: Helge Hielscher; Ext3-users@redhat.com > Subject: RE: sharing an ext3-partition with windows? > > > If you have enough power and memory resources on your PC (and enough time > to experiment...) you can manage the situation in this way: > > 1) you have a dual boot system setup with native windows and native linux > installed > > 2) you install vmware on both o.s. > > 3) on each o.s. you can boot the other o.s. installed on hd, using vmware > with the native partition option setup > > 4) you set up your linux system to share the ext3 fs (or dir) via samba > > 5) depending on your needs you start linux or windows in native mode and > the other o.s in vmware on the same pc and you should be done > > > NOTE: it could be very tricky, but in the past I managed to have both > Linux and windows able to boot on a native partition in vmware. And also > you have to buy 2 licences for vmware... > > For windows you have to create hw profiles and disable startup of > particular applications for your native devices (such as mouse, keyboard, > video adapter settings tools, network card monitoring tools) and other > things, and I don't know the kind of support from vmware for this. > For Linux you have to manage your X configuration when in native mode and > when inside vmware environment. > > I used this successfully but with much pain with vmware 2.x, so I don't > know the status of the art now that version 4 is out. > > To have an overview about the process you can check these links. > > http://www.vmware.com/support/ws2/doc/rawdevices_ws_linux.html > > http://www.vmware.com/support/ws2/doc/acpihal_w2k_ws_linux.html > > Bye, > Gianluca > > -----Original Message----- > From: Helge Hielscher [mailto:hhielscher@unternehmen.com] > Sent: lunedì 18 agosto 2003 19.10 > To: Ext3-users@redhat.com > Subject: RE: sharing an ext3-partition with windows? > > > Am Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:35:50 -0400 schrieb Robert Adkins: > > > > In which way are you suggesting that it be shared? Are you > > suggesting that you would be having this EXT3FS partition on one hard > > drive inside of one computer and have it be a centrally shared directory > > between two operating systems on a Dual-boot system? > > Yes, this is what I need. > > > If that is the case, I believe quite completely that it is > > impossible, as Windows is only capable of reading/writing to the > following > > types of formats; FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and I believe it had at one time > > Access to HPFS for OS/2 Compatibility, but that has since been removed. > > But you can't (or shouldnt) write on a NTFS Partition from Linux. > > > Anyway, if you want to share between dual-booting Windows and > > Linux, the "Share" partition needs to be running some form of FAT, > either > > 16 or 32 will do nicely. Except that you will lose permissions and other > > special controls. > > Well thats a problem. FAT is old, wastes a lot of space and has no > journaling. > > The NTFS driver FAQ lists four projects for reading ext2/3 for windows: > Taken from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2 > # explore2fs - http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm > * Home page: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm > * For Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. > # ext2fsd - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ > * Home page: http://www.tuningsoft.com/projects/projects.htm > * For Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. > # winext2fsd - http://sourceforge.net/projects/winext2fsd/ > * Home page: winext2fsd project page > * Reportedly works on Windows NT and Windows XP, likely also on > Windows 2000. > # ext2forxp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2forxp/ > * Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2forxp/ > * In early stages, not ready for use yet (June 4th, 2003). > > The question is: does anybody use any of this? > > Regards, > Helge > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
