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*nix q's!?

post #1 of 6
10/28/04 at 5:22pm
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Hi there. I'm going to go crazy with my laptop.

I plan to quad boot.

1. WinXP
2. Gentoo
3. OpenBSD
4. Solaris (maybe)

I'm wondering what would be the best way to partition the drive out for all these? Could I possibly share a partition, say /home between the 3 non windows? Also, is there a file system that would be accessible and writable to with all 4 OS's? This way I can save documents and data to one place and have it accessible by everything! Thanks!
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post #2 of 6
10/28/04 at 5:57pm
I don't know about your other questions, but all of them should be able to read and write to fat32.
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post #3 of 6
10/28/04 at 6:25pm
/home directories can, and should be used by all 4 *nix's, to save on setting migration, etc. I am not away of any incompatibilities with any of these three in regards to /home directories. I'm betting that swaps can be shared too. WinXP will be the annoying one- you'll have to keep your files in a separate fat32 partition to keep things working between all 4 =p
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post #4 of 6
10/28/04 at 8:05pm
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eww...fat 32?

well i suppose if that is the only way.
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post #5 of 6
10/28/04 at 11:14pm
Well, I'm sure you could use fat16.


There are patches to allow *nix kernels to read NTFS and some have support to write to NTFS, but it's not recommended as it can **** it up completely.
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post #6 of 6
10/29/04 at 1:10pm
Search for captive-ntfs for write support.

Be warned- when they say write support is slow, they weren't kidding! This bastard is S-L-O-W slow, takes like 30 seconds just to to read a directory with 10 files. If you plan on keeping a directory of mp3's, forget it, because any large quantities of files will not be read in any feasible amount of time =p
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