On 7/1/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a multi-boot machine and need to share some files > between the Linux and Windows XP OSs. To date, I've been > either writing to floppy or burning a CD and rebooting, then > reading in. I'd like to just copy files between some shared > device, like my Windows XP partition. > > I've heard that there is no problem mounting an NTFS volume > and reading it using Fedora Core 2, but that there are perhaps > problems *writing* to such a volume from FC2. Since the > direction I mostly need to go is FC2->WXP, this is of some > concern to me. You are correct. The other problem is that you have to install a new linux-ntfs RPM with every FC kernel update, which can be annoying: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ One common way to get around it is to set up a FAT partition on a drive, or part of a drive, for a transfer area. Linux has no trouble reading/writing FAT. > Can anyone answer this question for me? And where do I go > to research this without bothering people here? New to FCx > and don't know how to do the search at redhat.com yet. Most people find the archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 to be more easily searchable. Other great sources are fedorafaq.org and fedoraforum.org. Good luck, Matt
