dear linuxers, i have winxp home and core three installed on my laptop as dual boot; and i frequently switch from one into another and vice versa using hibernate. so i frequently hibernate my windows, then boot into linux, and then hibernate linux, and then resume into windows, and so on that the cycle repeated several times a day until i rebooted them... my problem is, i want both operating systems to access (read/write) the same partition (let's call it D: or /dev/hda9, the point is they are the same). but as i have experienced, this will corrupt my data at the partition when i switched operating system. to make things more clearly, the case is, i'm using thunderbird e-mail client both at windows and linux. i stored windows thunderbird mail folder to D:\mails and i stored linux thunderbird mail folder to /dev/hda9/mails. when i receive new mails from linux thunderbird, all seems okay. but when i hibernate my linux and switched into windows, thunderbird windows complains there is a file corrupt and suggests me to run chkdsk utility. and you can guess, chkdsk truncated my inbox and my mails are gone. i realized that sharing a partition for 2 OS is a bad practice. but is there really no solution? how about disabling write-cache on both OS? is it possible to "disable write-cache just for selected partition" ? how to do that in fedora? thank you for any solution, opinion, or idea. -- Tony Prawiro, S.Kom
