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.
<br><br>Shawn<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ghaith Hachem</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:blacksadness@gmail.com">blacksadness@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
hey, <br>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.. 
<br>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..
<br><br>thank you in advance<br clear="all"><span class="sg"><br>-- <br>Ghaith Hachem<br>TristMoon Staff<br>TristMoon.com

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