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[James Gray]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 04:25, scott wrote:
> I also recomend one more; a fat32 partition so you can easily
> share files between the two OS's.  After that you simply install the
> Kubuntu system and the Grub will detect the XP and automatically create
> a link to it when you boot up.

Hi Scott,

Like many, I *used* to use a FAT32 partition to share files between OS'es on 
dual boot machines (MP3 collection etc).  However, I came across a Win32 
driver for EXT2 :)  It installs on Win2k/XP/2k3 and allows you to use EXT2 
partitions as native Windows partitions (like FAT32/NTFS).

The beauty of it is that FAT32 provides no file system security in either 
Windows or Linux (any security is purely emulated), and considering I spend 
most of my time in Linux, by sharing an EXT2 partition I get all the 
native-Linux security when in Linux, and don't loose anything in Windows :)

I can't remember what the driver is called but googling "EXT2 driver 
+windows" (without the "") will turn up useful results (I'm offline ATM).  If 
anyone gets lost, drop me a line and I'll provide some more concise URL's 
when I'm online again.

YMMV and usual disclaimers apply.

Cheers,

James
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