 | | | File transfers between linux and windows? | File transfers between linux and windows? 2004-02-19 - By Richard Crawford
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Eric Evans said:
> Hi folks,
>
> On a dual-OS PC that has both Windows and RH Linux, what 's the best way
> to transfer files from the Windows side to the Linux side or vice
> versa? I thought I heard somewhere that if you create a third
> partition that is FAT, that you could access that partition from either
> the Windows and Linux partitions, so you could use this third partition
> as a way to transfer files back and forth. Is there any truth to this?
> If so, how do you go about accessing this FAT partition from Linux?
Wow. I have a dual-boot computer at home, but I don 't think I 've accessed
the Winderz side since I built the box back in January 2003.
Having said that, yes, a FAT32 partition is the way to go. Linux can read
FAT but not NTFS, and Windows can read FAT but not ext3.
Personally, since I have two separate computers at home (a WinXP laptop
and a RH8 desktop), I stopped doing this months ago. Instead I have a CVS
repository of all of my datafiles on a third computer in my house, and I
just work off of that, updating the files on my laptop with cvs update
through Cygwin when I need to work on them, and on my desktop with cvs
update when I use that computer. Of course I have to remember to commit
and add and all that, but all in all it 's turned out to be a great
solution for me.
Sl�inte,
Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K)
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