Swap partition

[Dick Davies]

On 19/12/05, Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:18, Vram wrote:
> > > I am new to ubuntu and linux os. I have created a swap partition(5 GB)
> > > while installing ubuntu for file exchange with windows. The problem is
> > > that I can not find that partition in linux moreover I have a drive
> > > called sda2(the one linux is installed on is sda1 I guess ??) but when I
> > > try to open that(sda2) I receive a message that I do not have permission
> > > to view files. Could you please help me on this.


> Frankly, I can't think of a way that "Just Works" to exchange
> files between Linux and Windows on a dual-boot system.  I've
> always bounced files off a server using FTP, NFS, or Samba.
> You can mount the Windows C: drive in Samba but it doesn't
> work very well.  You can create a FAT partition but you'll
> lose long filenames.

I'm not sure how Samba  helps wrt a dual boot box.

Can't you just mount the windows partition directly?
Umut - what version of Windows is it? Unless its' NTFS, it should show
up in GNOME under 'places' -> 'computer'.

Worst case scenario, just 'sudo mount' , 'sudo cp'...

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