Re: [Sheflug] Writable XP Partitions

[Marcus Hanwell <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:12, Simon Instone wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't think I'll be able to get memory sticks of 5Gb and if
> I can, I don't think I can afford it at the moment. :-)
> The 5Gb is needed cause I can't cut DVD's in Linux, I have to use
> Windows.
> 
> I could probably get away with having a 4Gb FAT32 partition, but, I'm a
> bit wary about buggering about with partitions on the same drive as my
> Linux. If I did that I'll have to create more than one 4Gb shared
> partition with Windows which will renumber my Linux partitions. I can't
> afford the time it will take to get all my data back if I bugger Linux
> up!

As I said I can't remember the limits on FAT32 but I know that I have
had 20GB partitions readable in Linux before that were FAT32. Nowadays I
tend to use an old PC with a couple of 80GB hard drives in it as a Samba
file server/firewall/email/web server. Then there is my desktop, laptop
and play server.

Rarely go into Windows anymore, but when I do I share everything over
Samba, and share the same directories over NFS for all my Linux clients.
It works really well and I use ext3 partitions just about exclusively. I
would be shocked if you couldn't get a 10 - 20 GB partition sorted under
FAT32 though, and then read/write to it from Linux - I am sure I have
done that in the past.

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