Partition confusion

[Robert Meyer]

Windows will only access Windows partitions.  The only rational way to get both
O/S to be able to handle the photo directories is to put the photos on a big
vfat partition.  Windows will read/write vfat and so will Linux.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net> wrote:
> I can access my windows partitions (vfat) from within Linux but I don't
> know how you can access Linux partitions (ext3) from within windows .
> 
> On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:50, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Michael Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > would like to use Linux to store everything but how do I access Linux
> > > partitions from within windows? I mainly need access to my photos. I do
> > 
> > mount -t vfat /dev/<windows_partition> /mnt/point/on/filesystem
> > 
> > The "-t vfat" may not be necessary. You may have to load the vfat module
> > first too, but the mount call *should* automagically do it.
> > 
> > There are quite a few options you can pass to mount for vfat - man mount
> > for them all. You can also find information in there on how to mount the
> > partition on boot by editing your /etc/fstab.
> -- 
> Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net>
> 


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