<Answered>Is this a good way to share in different de

[noob420]

I am thinking of adding another partition on my hhd for sharing of data. Format it as ntfs that way my xp can access also. Is this a good idea for sharing data. You people in the know may know another way??? I only have 2 partitions, Oops, I mean 1 appox. 350gb ntfs and my PCLOS partitions using appox 150 gb total. Thinking about 100 gb data storage partition. Any suggestions will be listened to. Thanks you people have been really nice and helpful!!!!

[T6]

"Is this a good idea for sharing data"

this is what most people do

there is another option, create a fat32 but this creates file size limit of 4 gbs(fat32 limitation)

also you can install a ext3 driver to be able to use a ext3 partition on windows xp, but only ext3, ext4 doesn't have support yet afik

usual procedure is leave a decent space for linux, a decent space for xp and a huge space for that shared partition

based on those two partitions you mention it seems that oyu have a 500 gb hard disk, i would leave for xp 60 or 80 gbs, for linux 60 to 40 and the rest for that big partition to share files between both os

[sammy2fish]

usual procedure is leave a decent space for linux, a decent space for xp and a huge space for that shared partition

based on those two partitions you mention it seems that oyu have a 500 gb hard disk, i would leave for xp 60 or 80 gbs, for linux 60 to 40 and the rest for that big partition to share files between both os

That's almost word for word, what I would say....

PCLinuxOS has no problem writing to an ntfs drive.

[uncleV]

I share files with Windows the same way, keith221, and it looks to me most logical this way cause Win doesn't read well ext file system.

What are you going to do about the new partition - shrinking an existent or you have free unallocated space on the disk?

[pupthai]

yep +1 I have a large partition labeled HomeMedia  its ntfs mounts in home and as (k):HomeMedia  when I boot the winbox.  In fact I point all my browser downloads at the same dir in both.

[noob420]

Thanks for getting back to me. Don't mean to be a pain. Caution!!
Sounds like I am going to shrink the two partitions and about a 300gb share partition. Now I am going to back up and shrink some partitions and I downloaded PartMagic good time to try. I'll no longer be untried.LOL   
Thanks again!

[T6]

resize partitions is sometimes problematic

before doing this be sure to backup first your important files

[Xero]

My storage drives are formatted ext3, and I add the extfsd driver to windows to read and write them. Works fine so far.

[T6]

yes, that works well if all you do is store files on that partition

if you want to share / partition that is dangerous for file permissions, folder permissions and from a security side you can alter everything this way, also put dangerous files in that partition, xp allows alot to happen with or without antivirus