From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 02:10:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D938D16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:10:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D74D43FBD for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hALAAGu30565; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:10:16 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: ogautherot@freesurf.fr Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:10:16 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <002701c3af33$d7ccec30$fe01a8c0@JMICH> <200311201331.20730.kstewart@owt.com> <20031121093016.D781AE4A04@mail.freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <20031121093016.D781AE4A04@mail.freesurf.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311210210.16216.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:10:22 -0000 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