Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:32:18 +0100 From: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data Message-ID: <475AE332.4090205@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com> References: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep > all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS > [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I > know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am > worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in > FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence > [bit torrents]). Any ideas? > > BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the > OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm using ext2 for my data partiton. Works like a charm for me ( Using http://www.fs-driver.org/ for WinXP and sysutils/e2fsprogs ) Only thing that can be anoying is when FreeBSD crashes and I have to fsck my entire data partiton which can take a while. But possibly this can be avoided by using ext3 instead of ext2 (But the utilities are the same ). Good luck, -- -Frank Staals
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