Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

Derek Maciel ishidableach at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 19:25:07 UTC 2010


Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of using / as ext4 just because
it's new and shiny ^^, but Windows last time I checked had no way of
"mounting" an ext4 drive (there are ways for ex2 and ext3, yes, but
it's a bit "borked" for ext4).

Thanks,
~Derek

On 13 September 2010 03:34, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Derek Maciel wrote:
>> If I have my / partition formatted as ext4, can I make my /home
>> partition as something else? That way I can access /home in Windows
>> XP.
>
> Yes, you can use a different file system on /home. But beware using FAT
> or NTFS because the Linux permissions can't be applied on those file
> systems.
>
>
> Nils
>
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