Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:37:01 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data Message-ID: <475AE44D.1070407@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <475AE332.4090205@gmx.net> References: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com> <475AE332.4090205@gmx.net>
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Frank Staals wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> I am creating a triple boot machine (FB, Linux, Vista) and want to keep >> all non-system files (i.e. any thing I made vs. was installed by the OS >> [including 3rd party software]) avaible (r/w) by all three OS's. I >> know I can do this by putting /usr/home on a NTFS partition but am >> worried about the slowness of ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs (90% of the time I am in >> FreeBSD and have several things going that need decent disk performence >> [bit torrents]). Any ideas? >> BTW an added plus would be some way to automatically have one or all the >> OS's maintain archival copies for backup purposes >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > For my dual-booting laptop ( FreeBSD , WinXP ) I'm using ext2 for my > data partiton. Works like a charm for me ( Using > http://www.fs-driver.org/ for WinXP and sysutils/e2fsprogs ) Only > thing that can be anoying is when FreeBSD crashes and I have to fsck > my entire data partiton which can take a while. But possibly this can > be avoided by using ext3 instead of ext2 (But the utilities are the > same ). If that is the program I am thinking of I tried it on vista and it doesn't work (I tried a fair number of things that claimed to support extX FS's and all of them where a) non-funcitonal on vista [even in compat mode], b) didn't allow for direct mounting in windows, c) where reasonable priced [less then $50])
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