You might try something like a ZIP drive. I've had GREAT luck with my
Fujitsu magneto optical drive. Alas, those puppies have gone obsolete.
CDROMs come to mind as a means for really large files. You could find
an old hard disk that's too small to be useful for anything real and
install it as a transfer drive with a FAT filesystem of some sort.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Haxby" <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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
