-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time at band camp Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:51 pm, John Haxby wrote: > This is probably slightly off-topic for this list, but I know there's > some good people reading this list. > > I want to share large files -- files too big to fit in a FAT32 file > system -- between Windows (2K or XP) and Linux. I use NTFS to store > them on Windows at the moment, but access to them from Linux is somewhat > limited. > > Now, I know that I could build a kernel with NTFS write access enabled, > but I'm rather loathe to do that considering that NTFS write access is > generally regarded as, shall we say, somewhat dangerous. NFS and Samba > aren't, I'm afraid, an option since (a) it takes forever to copy a 15Gb > file across the network and (b) (more to the point) NFS and Samba > require both machines to be up at the same time and this is a dual-boot > machine I'm talking about! > There is a driver for windows that will allow you to read and write ext2 and 3 partitions. i would sugest you use that. http://sys.xiloo.com/ Regards Dennis > Does anyone have a solution to this kind of problem? > > thanks > jch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/EAea4hBQ1unFjm4RAjagAJ9SEh380mF5mR4f+rriU4aEvndGJgCfYGok W7ZkEE1sRu0nG20jKmwX1NY= =1R7w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
