XP and Linux

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Sep 8 16:08:36 UTC 2004


John Wildberger wrote:
> I have XP and Linux (Mdk10) on my IBM ThinkPad. I can mount  the XP drives on 
> Linux and read the files. The XP is configured to share the files on the 
> network. The /etc/fstab is set for the XPdriveC as rw.
> Is there a way to write files from Linux to XP ? From all the experimenting I 
> did so far I concluded that it cannot be done. Am I wrong??
> John
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Linux NTFS write is "experimental" i.e. flakey.

What you can do, is create a FAT32 partion and move your "My Documents" 
folder to it.  This way, both sides can share the data.

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