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avd_1984
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 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: Sharing files between windows and gentoo |
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I have windows xp which is ntfs system on two partitions on my drive and gentoo on the other three. Out of the three gentoo partitions, one is boot and one is swap. I want to share files between my root partiiton in gentoo and my windows partitions. Is there a way to do this from both gentoo and windows?
summary of partitions:
/dev/hda1 ntfs C:
/dev/hda2 W95 Ext'd
/dev/hda5 ntfs D:
/dev/hda6 ext3 boot
/dev/hda7 swap
/dev/hda8 reiserfs root
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br0mGreV
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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well, there are solutions, you can easlily mount the Windows partition from linux.
The issue here, is that the ntfs partitions are only accessible read-only. You must create a partition in FAT32 if you want to write linux files for use with windows. Can you express better your needs  |
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Ian
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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www.p-nand-q.com
Look for rfstool. It's a simple program, that combined with a GUI (links from above site) lets you read access Reiserfs partitions from Windows. I have it working from XP Home on my laptop, works great. No write support though, and none is forcasted. Too many strange things between Windows and Linux for that to work. |
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avd_1984
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:55 am Post subject: |
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thanks but I could not find a GUI. Also, where should I mount the windows partition to read it in linux? Especially from the windows manager. I use KDE.
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br0mGreV
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:30 am Post subject: |
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well, the easiest way is still to use command line interface :
| Code: | #first time only
mkdir /mnt/C
mkdir /mnt/D
#once per session, when you want for the first time to use windows files
#according to which hard drive you want to access
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/C
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda3 /mnt/D
#when you leave,
umount /mnt/C
umount /mnt/D
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or even simplier, add the following lines in your /etc/fstab, but remember to create both directories in you /mnt.
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/dev/hda1 /mnt/C ntfs defaults,auto,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/D ntfs defaults,auto,ro,umask=0 0 0 |
check this faq for more info |
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tommyjs
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject: Captive |
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The easiest thing to do is to setup an additional vfat (aka FAT32) partition which can be read from and written to by both linux and windows. You can also use Samba (or e.g. ftp) if you have (access to) a second computer (be it linux-run or windows-run; be it local or remote provided you have a fast internet connection).
HOWEVER
You can read-write  mount ntfs volumes in linux using Captive which is a combination of Genuine microsoft ntfs driver,LUFS and a ReactOS (GPL-licenced clone-to-be of WinNT) kernel. Captive is slow but reliable and completely safe. Goto http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/. The ebuild is in the process of being developed, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32929 you can download a preliminary version of ebuild from https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=32262&action=view
I dunno, but there might be a problem with the ebuild rightnow; here's a quote
| Quote: | "In what sense is the ebuild wrong?
The lufs that is in portage does not have the necessary patches that the captive one does, therefore that's the only one that can be used at the moment.
------- Additional Comment #41 From Olivier Crete 2004-06-04 01:07 PST -------
the ebuild says it requires the "normal" lufs while captive really requires the patched one.." |
On the other hand if yuo want linux filesystems read-write support in WindowsXP I suppose you could try CoLinux, see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/colinux-howto.xml[/b] |
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