Re: Windows data sharing

"Matthew Bowie" <[email protected]>
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That'll work fine.  I believe all data on the shared partition will be
777 if you use VFAT32, as IIRC the FAT filesystems don't support
security descriptors.

The big question is how are you doing RAID?  Is it real hardware RAID,
fake RAID (software RAID w/ some hardware assistance), or Linux
software RAID.  Only the first two will work, as Linux will usually
support the fake raid drivers, but Windows won't like linux md.  You
don't really need to make a scratch partition though, as ntfs3g does
fine at reading/writing NTFS data.  At home I have 2X250 fake raid0
for windows, and 2x250 fake raid0 for linux, and just mount the
windows partition and throw stuff I want to share directly into a
folders on the NTFS side.

Matt

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Aaron Birenboim <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to build a dual-boot machine, with a large shared data partition.
>  Can I partition a 900G (3 300G in RAID0) disk like:
>
>  1)  200G NTFS -- Win XP x64
>  2)  500G VFAT32  -- Shared Data area
>  3...)  200G -- various LINUX partitions
>
>  I want a large scratch data area which is equally usable for both OS's
>  when re-booting.
>
>  No security necessary.  Data area can all be rwxrwxrwx if that is easiest.
>
>                  aaron
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