[wellylug] Re: was X now Mandrake and Lycoris

[mangee]

I often use read-only access to a NFTS partition locally, and also you 
can mount windows shares with smb if the machine is on your network.
 From the Windows side of things I have used an graphical app I can't 
remember the name of to copy files form the ext partitions for linux.  
I initally used ext2tools for DOS - but found the graphically windows 
app was better and easir to navigate though the filesystem... can't 
remember the name.
Writing to NTFS partitions (windows NT, XP 2000 etc) from linux is 
still not recommended for valuable filesystems - but I have used it in 
the past once or twice with no problems.
FAT or FAT32 partitions wok fine... linux can read or write.. if you 
need to access files on both systems on a dual booting machine then 
it's probably easiest to use a FAT filesystems as the common 
denominator.
I use mandrake - 6, 8, 9.0 and 9.1...

> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 07:19:05 +1200
> From: "Eugene Van Wyk" <Eugene.VanWyk at 4rf.com>

> I can see my NT4 NTFS disks from Mandrake9 on a dual boot dual disk
> machine.  I have never actually tried to do anything across the
> partitions, but when I next "do some Mandrake" I will give it a try. 
> =20
>
> I have accessed FAT partition directly between the platforms.
>
> Eugene van Wyk
> Test Development Engineer