sharing disk space between W2K and Linux?

bscott at ntisys.com bscott at ntisys.com
Tue Apr 22 11:25:09 EDT 2003


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, at 11:13am, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas how to share disk space between W2K and 
> Linux?  I tried FAT32, but the problem is that the disks in question 
> are huge (for dos standards :)  I think there's one which is about 
> 16GB ...

  FAT32 is neither efficient nor robust, but I have used it on partitions up
to 40 GB at least.  I think it can handle more, but I'm not sure.  What
exactly is happening?

> What I'm trying to do is have a multi-boot system where only the OS
> changes for some benchmarking tests.

  Expand "benchmarking tests".  What are you actually trying to measure?  

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