Partition visible to both XP and Fedora?

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:55 +0000, Irving, Dave wrote:
> >> However, Im wondering if its possible to create a partition which can be mounted by
> >> both XP and Linux. Is this possible / easy
> 
> [Paul Howarth wrote]
> > Yes, it is. Use a FAT32 partition.
> 
> [Samuel Díaz García wrote]
> ...
> >   1) FAT32 is visible under FC3 without problems, only need to add a line 
> >      into /etc/fstab to mount the partition during the system start. 
> 
> Thanks for the replies... 
> So I think I'll give FAT32 a shot first then...
> Currently I've split my (single) hard disk 50/50 between XP and Linux - so Im guessing what I need to do is boot up with the rescue CD and use QTParted to resize one of these and make the remaining space FAT32. Is that basically the idea?

Yes, that's it.

Another reason for using FAT32 rather than NTFS for this purpose is that
write support in the linux NTFS driver is very limited and not really
suitable for most purposes.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>