From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 15:24:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8E216A4D1 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:24:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9789743D1F for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:24:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i5HFMd020826; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:22:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200406171522.i5HFMd020826@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: cjalmond@gmail.com (Curtis Almond) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:22:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <92b67e1b04061708195c3d1c4d@mail.gmail.com> from "Curtis Almond" at Jun 17, 2004 10:19:01 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Tom Moyer cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared Partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:24:16 -0000 > > I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. > I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux > I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. I also believe that you need a fat32 slice. It would be accessable by both systems. ////jerry > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27:34 -0400, Tom Moyer wrote: > > > > I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? > > > > I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP allows only one visible primary partition and I don't know how to mount a logical partition with multiple sub-partitions. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >