Mounting drives and user permissions

synthead · 2006-07-29 09:02:01

I am dualbooting between win2k and linux on my laptop, and because windows is so capable, I created a 10G partition to keep personal files readable between windows and the more powerful OS. But I'm a little curious ... how should I setup arch to do this (permissions, groups, fstab, etc.)? And also, what is a better, faster filesystem to use in linux, FAT32 or NTFS?

Thanks all!

gnud · 2006-07-29 19:29:26

I would use FAT32, because that's better supported under linux.

Romashka · 2006-07-29 20:32:34

Until recently NTFS has no good write support. Now there is ntfs-3g in AUR, but note that it is experimental yet.
I recommend FAT32. Note that if you use other codepage than latin1 (i.e. you have non-English version of Windows) you should set correct codepage and iocharset options in fstab.

synthead · 2006-08-01 06:30:53

So I setup everything ... mounted the FAT32 partition @ /home/synthead, gave all access to the partition, etc ... but one thing. Everything is very, very slow. It'll hang for long moments frequently. Is this normal?

syd · 2006-08-01 07:04:32

The other thing you can do ,if you use linux more than windows, is make you 10gb an ext3 partition and use IFS drive to mount it in windows.
Well thats what i was doing before i wiped windows anyway.

Romashka · 2006-08-21 08:24:50

synthead wrote:

So I setup everything ... mounted the FAT32 partition @ /home/synthead, gave all access to the partition, etc ... but one thing. Everything is very, very slow. It'll hang for long moments frequently. Is this normal?

Have you mounted with async option?

onearm · 2006-08-21 08:51:45

ntfs-3g works ok, I'm testing it, at least when simple editing of text files is involved.
Anyway, the best solution remains to me a Fat32 partition (I have one of 5gb)

mouse256 · 2006-08-23 16:16:50

I use ext3 and use an ext2/3-ifs driver
You can read and write in windows on the ext2/ext3 drive like it's a fat32 or ntfs drive, and the speed is very good (in benchmarks my ext3 partition in windows was even faster than my ntfs partition)

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Mounting drives and user permissions

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