Look into sharing the files as a UDF file system. I'm not sure this will work and it will take research. Bob On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 07:51, 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! > > Does anyone have a solution to this kind of problem? > > thanks > jch -- Need help with computer hardware or software? I can take care of it in your home at very reasonable cost. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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