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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:22:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        cjalmond@gmail.com (Curtis Almond)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shared Partition?
Message-ID:  <200406171522.i5HFMd020826@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <92b67e1b04061708195c3d1c4d@mail.gmail.com> from "Curtis Almond" at Jun 17, 2004 10:19:01 AM

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> 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 <tommoyer@atlanticbb.net> 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.
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