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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:39:23 -0500
From: "Shawn Singh" <callmeshawn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS vs ext3
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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 <blacksadness@gmail.com> 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

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In ( what seems like ) similar situatoins, I've just let the partition that I want to &quot;share&quot; b/w OSes just be a NTFS partition if say, I were dual-booting my machine ( Linux &amp; 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

</span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>&quot;...the return which is executed immediately after the call to aretu actually returns from the last routine which did the savu.<br>You are not expected to understand this.&quot;
<br>Unix Sixth Edition

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