linux&win share partition, disable write-cache?

[Edward Dekkers]

Tony Prawiro wrote:
> dear linuxers,
> 
> i have winxp home and core three installed on my laptop as dual boot;
> and i frequently switch from one into another and vice versa using
> hibernate.
> 
> so i frequently hibernate my windows, then boot into linux, and then
> hibernate linux, and then resume into windows, and so on that the
> cycle repeated several times a day until i rebooted them...
> 
> my problem is, i want both operating systems to access (read/write)
> the same partition (let's call it D: or /dev/hda9, the point is they
> are the same). but as i have experienced, this will corrupt my data at
> the partition when i switched operating system.
> 
> to make things more clearly, the case is, i'm using thunderbird e-mail
> client both at windows and linux. i stored windows thunderbird mail
> folder to D:\mails and i stored linux thunderbird mail folder to
> /dev/hda9/mails. when i receive new mails from linux thunderbird, all
> seems okay. but when i hibernate my linux and switched into windows,
> thunderbird windows complains there is a file corrupt and suggests me
> to run chkdsk utility. and you can guess, chkdsk truncated my inbox
> and my mails are gone.
> 
> i realized that sharing a partition for 2 OS is a bad practice. but is
> there really no solution? how about disabling write-cache on both OS?
> is it possible to "disable write-cache just for selected partition" ?
> how to do that in fedora?
> 
> thank you for any solution, opinion, or idea.
> 

Is that even the answer?

Do Linux and Windows Thunderbird share the exact same mailbox & 
configuration data?

I don't think so. I really don't think this is a write cache issue.

You need to speak to mozilla regarding the differences and see if you 
can work around it.

Regards,
Ed.
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