[SOLVED] Access media from both Windows and Arch?

pritchard92 · 2010-02-26 16:38:05

I'm hoping to get a new laptop around summer time, allowing me to sort any niggles out before I start uni in september. I've been using Arch Linux for a while, and really like it now - it totally stopped by habit of distro-hopping anyway

However, I'm taking Computer Science, and think that it could be beneficial if I had a Windows partition on this new laptop, aswell as an Arch partition. The main problem with this is - How could I set this up, so that my media is kept on a partition of it's own, which could be accessed by both the Windows partition AND the linux partition? Is my only option to use NTFS? Or should I try Ext3, with one an ext3 driver in Windows? Or is there an even better solution?

Thanks,
Pritchard92

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Bregol · 2010-02-26 17:10:11

I use fat32 because its stable and i started setting up a common partition between windoze and linux back before the ntfs drivers had decent write support. Its probably not the most optimal choice these days, but it works. But ntfs, ext, and fat are pretty much your options for having a common partition. I dont think there are major problems these days with ntfs or ext across operating systems.

pritchard92 · 2010-02-26 20:20:57

NTFS sounds pretty okay right now. I know that there can be permissions problems with NTFS, but I'll be the sole user of the laptop, so that shouldn't be a problem.

eDio · 2010-02-26 21:12:07

If read-only access from windows would be enough, you can use ext4 too.

renuvio · 2010-02-26 21:25:53

Long time ago, when i was running Windows 2000 and Linux in one pc, there was a driver to access EXT2 partitions from that win version, and worked ok. Maybe is still available.

The other options offered in this thread sound fine too.

thestinger · 2010-02-26 22:11:25

http://www.fs-driver.org/

doesn't look like they have windows 7 support yet

EDIT: actually, I think you can install vista drivers in W7 by using a workaround, so maybe it does have W7 support?

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Vortex375 · 2010-02-27 01:32:31

I have this driver working on Windows7 and it didn't require any kind of workaround to install.

The only issue I'm having is that I have to re-assign the driver letter every reboot. Also be careful after your system crashed, because the Windows driver does not run any filesystem checks.

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pritchard92 · 2010-02-27 16:22:24

Well, I think I trust Linux a lot more than Windows, in terms of data integrity. So maybe an NTFS partition? That way, Windows can perform any filesystem checks if/when Windows crashes, with Linux still able to read and write to it. Thoughts?

Vortex375 · 2010-03-03 23:35:38

Well, I think I trust Linux a lot more than Windows, in terms of data integrity (...) That way, Windows can perform any filesystem checks

Aren't you contradicting yourself here?

Since NTFS write support is considered stable, I think it is the best choice as long as you don't need permission control (which only partially works with NTFS).

Make sure you're using the "ntfs-3g" driver since there is still the old "ntfs" driver around which does not have write support.

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pritchard92 · 2010-03-04 00:17:36

Awesome, I think that's my preffered solution too. Thanks

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