On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:37:17 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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)? > > Thanks > > Mark
If your NT partition is NTFS then you cannot write to it from Linux. The safest bet is a DOS partion that can be read and written to by both OSes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]