My laptop is set up to dual boot Debian (sid) and Windows 2000. What is the best way to be able to share files between the two OSs?
The Linux howtwo on this subject warns about directly mounting My Documents from Windows in Linux, and suggests creating a separate vfat partition to share files. Is that really necessary? What are the
reasons (they were not mentioned in the article)?
I have mounted Windows partitions on dual boot laptops and desktops for years and had no problems. Of course, there will be the usual DOS/UNIX line termination issues.
I make a directory /dosc
drwxrwxrwx 18 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 dosc
In /etc/fstab I have an entry:
/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat defaults,rw,user,umask=0 0 0
And it's mounted at boot time. Your Windows device may be different. Note: the file system is vfat, *not* ntfs. If your Windows partition is ntfs, then there are all kinds of warnings about mounting such a partition as read-write in the howto's.
HTH.
Kirk -- Theorie ist, wenn man alles weiss und nichts klappt. Praxis ist, wenn alles klappt und keiner weiss warum. Bei uns sind Theorie und Praxis vereint: nichts klappt und keiner weiss warum!
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