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On Wednesday 29 June 2005 19:29, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:

> >...but frankly the very idea terrifies me. Let Winxp loose on my fbsd
> >partition?
> >
> ><shudders>
>
> Well, it's a sourceforge project, so it isn't by Microsoft.
>
> If you're concerned about data integrity, then you could try:
>
> 1) Mount only one shared FreeBSD partition using this software
> and
> 2) Make this partition on a separate disk slice (or even disk) from your
> regular system.
>
> It's either that or FAT32 (with no real concept of file ownership, file
> permissions, or ability to change times).

Thanks a lot for this - I'll have a very careful go!

Cheers,
Ben