Re: [Sheflug] Writable XP Partitions

[Marcus Hanwell <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:24, Simon Instone wrote:
> In MDK9.1 I could see both my XP partitions, one was read only and the
> other one was read/write/etc.
> 
> Now I've upgraded to MDK9.2 both partitions are read only.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get a 50Gb partition writable in both Linux and
> XP?
> 
> I've tried deleting the NTFS partition XP created and creating a 50Gb
> FAT32 partition but when I format it I only get about 4Gb.

I think the 4GB problem is related to a limitation of FAT32 - although I
thought the Win98 on could format FatX or whatever it was up to about
20GB. I can't remember the exact numbers right now though.

You can write to NTFS partitions from Linux, but it is extremely
experimental and from what I can tell you should not expect to have a
reliable NTFS partition if you write to it from Linux. This is why most
kernels don't have write support for NTFS built in. You best bet is some
kind of FAT32 partition, but it's been such a long time since I bothered
with them.

Really NTFS should only ever be used as read only. I actually use a
flash memory stick as shared storage space, formatted as FAT32 and it
allows sharing of all I wish to share.



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