Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> i have 40 GB of unused, unpartitioned hard drive space. how can i partition
> it as FAT32 (or VFAT, which is better?) and format it? i dual boot winxp
> and FC2 and i ultimately want this partition to be my /home dir in FC2 and
> also show up in winxp as my D: drive or something.
>
> also, is there a better format that is both usable by linux and windows? i
> know linux can't write to NTFS very well, but can windows handle ext3 well?
To be honest, you'd do better to mount it either as /home/user/data or
as /mnt/data and have symlinks from each user's home directory.
Otherwise you'll sooner or later have app-specific hidden directories
which rely on temp and Temp being two separate files...
James.
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