I'd be a little leery of formatting your /home partition as NTFS. There are few reasons: - you lose the ability to change Unix-style file permissions - support for writing to NTFS is still considered "experimental" - the permissions for all files on the partition are set to 744 - the owner for all files on the partition is the owner of the device (usually root) What I've done on my dual boot box (it's named eridor) is mount my windows partitions in the /mnt tree and then made soft links to those spots in the partition I want easy access to. For example, first I add the appropriate mount points to the /mnt tree: eridor$ mkdir /mnt/ntfs_c eridor$ mkdir /mnt/vfat_d I would then add the following lines to my /etc/fstab to auto-magically mount the NTFS and VFAT partitions: /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs_c ntfs noauto, ro 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/vfat_d vfat noauto 0 0 The reason I put the "noauto" options in is for security reasons. As mentioned above, you lose Unix-style file permissions on DOS-like partitions. If your box isn't connected to the Internet all the time then it's probably fine to use "default". If you use "default" then the partition will be mounted when you boot the machine. With "noauto" you'll need to mount the partition manually: eridor$ mount /mnt/ntfs_c If you're really paranoid, add the "user=" option. That allows only the named user to mount the partition. For example, adding "user=bmaas" would allow only myself to mount the drive. I also added "ro" to the NTFS partition. I myself haven't had any data corruption issues with writing to NTFS, but I still set them "ro" for safety's sake. If you really need to mount partition read/write mount it with the "-w" option: eridor$ mount -w /mnt/ntfs_c Then, (assuming my MP3s are in d:\stuff\mp3s) if I wanted to make it look like my MP3s were in my Linux home I would do the following: eridor$ mount /mnt/vfat_d eridor$ ln -s /mnt/vfat_d/stuff/mp3s ~ Then if I want to play an MP3: eridor$ foo ~/mp3s/soundtrack/SW4/Imperial_March.mp3 You can do the same thing with the games you mentioned. The only suggestion I would make would be to try to get the game to do all its writing to a normal Linux partition (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc.). Hope this all helped. Ben Maas - Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Cell: 612.743.3674 Web: http://www.open-techsys.com -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of AIRPLANEIT at aol.com Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 9:56 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] WinXP and Linux. Linux and WinXP. I'm curious to what extent all of you experts out there would go to in order to maximize "portability" between Linux and Windows platforms. Would you dare go as far as partitioning your /home partition to NTFS or vfat? (and Red Hat's telling me vfat's only good for 2 gigs, but I have a drive formated to 10 gigs?) Basically, I want to keep my MP3's and documents in a place that both Windows and Linux can access them. Also, if anyone out there is familiar with Flightgear Flight Stimulator, I would like to keep the base packages on a common drive, so I can run the Windows and Linux versions without having to keep separate sets of files (which are identical except for the binaries). I'm sure someone's managed to do this before, if not with Flightgear, then perhaps with Quake or something. Is it wise to even try? Is stability going to be an issue? -Nick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list