Would it be possible to share things between my dual booted Windows XP and Ubuntu?
I don't want to have a music folder on both of them ._.
Samba. Look it up.
Or have a separate partition formatted to either NTFS or FAT32
I added a FAT32 partition, Thanks.
Wasn't hard at all.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;17518620]Samba. Look it up.[/QUOTE]
He doesn't want to mount Windows shares, he just wants to mount his ntfs partition.
Use ntfs-3g to mount your NTFS partition
[QUOTE=littlefoot;17519847]I added a FAT32 partition, Thanks.
Wasn't hard at all.[/QUOTE]
Keep in mind, the maximum filesize under FAT32 is around 4 gigabyte.
But for music and documents, it's all fine and dandy.
[QUOTE=Van-man;17520286]Keep in mind, the maximum filesize under FAT32 is around 4 gigabyte.
But for music and documents, it's all fine and dandy.[/QUOTE]
I can't see myself ever needing to share a 4GB file so yeah, It should be fine.
I used Gparted liveCD and it said there's a risk of loosing files, Should I worry about some file I'll find missing later or incomplete?
Anyway to check?
I'm such a novice. :D
GParted is great. As long as you know exactly what you're doing everything will be fine. You typically only lose files while resizing partitions and such. You'll probably be fine though :D
Anyway if you store your music on your Windows partition you could just mount that from Linux. It's better to have a shared media partition though.
[QUOTE=vladh_;17521323]GParted is great. As long as you know exactly what you're doing everything will be fine. [b]You typically only lose files while resizing partitions and such.[/b] You'll probably be fine though :D
Anyway if you store your music on your Windows partition you could just mount that from Linux. It's better to have a shared media partition though.[/QUOTE]
This is why you ALWAYS defragment your computer BEFORE running GParted or any other disk partitioning software!
Not doing so could cause severe data loss.
[QUOTE=Denzo;17520244]He doesn't want to mount Windows shares, he just wants to mount his ntfs partition.
Use ntfs-3g to mount your NTFS partition[/QUOTE]
Why does everyone ignore this?
It's the best solution
[QUOTE=littlefoot;17520565]I can't see myself ever needing to share a 4GB file so yeah, It should be fine.
I used Gparted liveCD and it said there's a risk of loosing files, Should I worry about some file I'll find missing later or incomplete?
Anyway to check?
I'm such a novice. [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/biggrin.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Make sure to defrag the partition before you shrink it. It makes it much safer and faster.
I'll use this thread for my question.
I have a Netbook with 2 partitions. One is as good as unused.
Would I be able to install Ubuntu or Mint or whatever it's called on the second one?
[QUOTE=Killuah;17616515]I'll use this thread for my question.
I have a Netbook with 2 partitions. One is as good as unused.
Would I be able to install Ubuntu or Mint or whatever it's called on the second one?[/QUOTE]
Sure, provided it's big enough. You should probably partition the unused one down further because it is a little dangerous to have the kernel on the root partition, and you also need a separate swap space.
[QUOTE=Denzo;17553904]Why does everyone ignore this?
It's the best solution[/QUOTE]
You're in Windows, it crashes, you're like meh I'll go in Ubuntu but then you can't use the drive because Windows didn't unmount it when it crashed.
[QUOTE=UNIX_nikomo;17619900]You're in Windows, it crashes, you're like meh I'll go in Ubuntu but then you can't use the drive because Windows didn't unmount it when it crashed.[/QUOTE]
Mount it using the force switch (-o force)
[QUOTE=UNIX_nikomo;17619900]You're in Windows, it crashes, you're like meh I'll go in Ubuntu but then you can't use the drive because Windows didn't unmount it when it crashed.[/QUOTE]
I don't have any problems with Windows crashing
I don't know anything about file sharing between the two in Windows, but in Ubuntu 8.10 (and I would assume in the newer ones) there is a folder on the main filesystem called "host" (without quotes of course) that has all of your Windows stuff in it. I think that being allowed to use that has something to do with how you installed. Wait, yeah, it does. If you chose the "Install inside windows and get a new selection to boot into" thing you can get into host.
[QUOTE=birkett;17620075]Mount it using the force switch (-o force)[/QUOTE]
If someone has to ask this kind of a question, he probably won't know how to mount from CLI.
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