Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:10:16 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: ogautherot@freesurf.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP Message-ID: <200311210210.16216.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20031121093016.D781AE4A04@mail.freesurf.fr> References: <002701c3af33$d7ccec30$fe01a8c0@JMICH> <200311201331.20730.kstewart@owt.com> <20031121093016.D781AE4A04@mail.freesurf.fr>
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On Friday 21 November 2003 01:30 am, ogautherot@freesurf.fr wrote: > Kent Stewart =E9crit: > > If you want to pass large files, you need something you can write to > > from FreeBSD. You can read but not write to NTFS. I have a number of > > multi-boot machines and I almost always have that much in one partition > > that is FAT32. > > To solve the problem, I loaded WinXP in a FAT32 partition, which I > incidently use as a temporary storage between systems when necessary. > This way, I have only 1 MS partition... On a single user system that is probably ok but you don't have the security= =20 that NTFS has built into it. You make it easier one way and lose protection= =20 in the other. I don't like the idea of a regular user having administrator= =20 privlidges. Running as administrator on XP carries the same risk that runni= ng=20 as root does on Unix. The NTFS, I think, really supports the long names that are common to the=20 registry and FAT32 has to use an alternate way of deal with long names. Tha= t=20 is why you see the funky names with embedded "~" tildes. Kent =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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