best dual boot strategy?

Jon Dixon jon at dixon-online.co.uk
Tue Nov 2 20:24:28 UTC 2004


IMHO, you can only safely read from NTFS at this time.

Unless of course, you are talking to it via SMB. Writing to an NTFS
formatted drive works that way.

- Jon

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:39 -0800, baz der wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:24:48 +1030, Samps <samps at redjocks.com> wrote:
> >   [...]
> > When everything is installed, you can use the FAT32 part as 'pivot
> > point' for Mozilla bookmarks, Thunderbird mailboxes etc. so you have a
> > consistent mailbox, no matter whether you're 'Windowing' or 'Ubunting'.
> >  [...]
> 
> 
> OK, very dumb question...
> 
> when I boot into Ubuntu will I be able to read and write files to and from
> the ntfs Windows XP partition ?
> 
> bazder
> 
-- 
Jon Dixon <jon at dixon-online.co.uk>





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