Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 15:04:35 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for ideas: triple booting and personal data Message-ID: <20071208200435.GA58992@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com> References: <475AD866.5010205@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:46:14PM -0500, 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 Make a FAT32 primary partition if you want FreeBSD to be able to write as well as read the space. Remember that only 4 primary partitions / slices can be made and each thing will require one of them eg maybe Slice 1 = MS, 2 = FAT32, Linux = 3, FreeBSD = 4 might work. I have never done any testing writing/reading FAT32 from FreeBSD. It seems not to have any delays. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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