From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 8 18:37:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A89916A419 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:37:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EE713C47E for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so2442092pyb for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:37:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CZKKAhZ1oHVAUGpxaGMjc1Ipnh4B5J9neYv9ZnCqONE=; b=eCuuM3UAQYZJ7TVskKuEJpMt6fGK8kZmij7hdWBdVkc4Hx0P0lYWvnZnZlv2YPF193lk24ZN/GwxpTT5QCsyK78JyepL/cXOxcEFwVch0PUP5oRLuSSj0Y1wkG5XyOIwqRHNWJ8XzCafWjmINhJa+IS+s00NFJVgzzOZAjtVLOQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=blgC6fdEkbD0FasbJwj5gTuZcsLcuUUzkiPnoMNlNVVsomjrp5v71gZk6Zartb7WWIkVhg2zq8WYWeH58mMHcVDYY2RXuOergtLN0VQupXxVSmKJrLOcAP7dlIAGFKcZ90R0yxAcibB1Jf1dB/rDdi+r7vbLNj/cnUYGZfx3pw8= Received: by 10.65.203.3 with SMTP id f3mr9714513qbq.1197139028660; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:37:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q14sm1463115qbq.2007.12.08.10.37.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:37:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <475AE44D.1070407@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:37:01 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071208) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Staals References: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com> <475AE332.4090205@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <475AE332.4090205@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:37:10 -0000 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])