Someone emailed me rather than the list about a post I made regarding transparently encrypting filesystems. Due to a bug I just discovered in my mail client (Evolution 2.0.4) it would be a hassle to reply to that message. However, that person is on the list, so here is my reply:
It is not possible for a partition to contain two separate filesystems simultaneously, at least in a way that allows two different OSs with no filesystems in common to share data. It is probably impossible to create even a useless partition that is formatted with two filesystems simultaneously. FAT32 serves this purpose well enough for sharing unencrypted data between linux and windows, although, as a side note, I hardly think this is an excuse for the vast array of poorly implemented NTFS drivers for linux and ext2/3 drivers for windows. What a mess! Even if a partition could somehow be treated as an ext3 filesystem and a FAT32 filesystem at the same time, it would not solve Hernan's problem because he requires transparent encryption from two OSs operating on a shared data storage area. Eric _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
