From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 8 19:00:13 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 991CD16A417 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 19:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E954513C442 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 19:00:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Dec 2007 18:33:32 -0000 Received: from ip176-173-59-62.adsl.versatel.nl (EHLO Rena.FStaals.net) [62.59.173.176] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 08 Dec 2007 19:33:32 +0100 X-Authenticated: #25365336 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/izKUOiw7i7FrNCslJitqhwAg8eCbTXR7V62yFy1 qTEX40b/L5q5ub Message-ID: <475AE332.4090205@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:32:18 +0100 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" References: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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 19:00:13 -0000 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 ). Good luck, -- -Frank Staals