In ( what seems like ) similar situatoins, I've just let the partition that I want to "share" b/w OSes just be a NTFS partition if say, I were dual-booting my machine ( Linux & Windows ). IMHO, Linux support for NTFS is fine, meaning that I've not experienced any trouble related to doing that. Shawn On 11/16/06, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > > hey, > i was wondering what would be the best solution for a shared data > partition, it's a 100GB partition, and FAT is not an option, so should i use > ext2 (or ext3) with one of the tools on windows? and which tool would you > recommend I'm currently using ext2fsd to read my ext2 backup harddrive i > think it has ext3 write support.. > Or should i go the other way around and put my data on an NTFS partition, > and if i do that is the NTFS write support stable by now.. it's been a long > time since i dual booted so back then NTFS support was not really a good > idea.. > > thank you in advance > > -- > Ghaith Hachem > TristMoon Staff > TristMoon.com -- "...the return which is executed immediately after the call to aretu actually returns from the last routine which did the savu. You are not expected to understand this." Unix Sixth Edition