Ubuntu & XP sharing a partiotion

[jpaulb]

I want to have XP & Ubuntu share the same data files, openoffice, mail etc. I have a fat32 partition for this: but I have totally forgotten how to get xp and ubuntu to share.

Must be getting old.;)

[tommcd]

To mount the fat32 partition in Ubuntu, see this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions
To setup the partition for automounting you can ad it to your fstab in Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions
Note: An NTFS partition would be a better option since Ubuntu / linux now has the ability to read and write to the NTFS file system.
Windows does not know how to read linux partitions, so linux file systems are not an option here. I think there may be some third party programs that can enable Windows to read linux file systems. See:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9449
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
Hope this helps.

[jpaulb]

Thanks
Just got back.
I did a dry run on a old laptop running windows 2000


When I installed Ubuntu after windows was installed the boot loader GRUB II does not give me the option to boot from the recovery partition. Is there any info about how to include the recovery partition in the boot menu?

[tommcd]

I did a dry run on a old laptop running windows 2000
When I installed Ubuntu after windows was installed the boot loader GRUB II does not give me the option to boot from the recovery partition. Is there any info about how to include the recovery partition in the boot menu?
Do you mean the Windows 2000 recovery partition?
Are you able to boot both Ubuntu and Windows 2000 from the grub2 menu?
Why do you need to boot to the Windows 2000 recovery partition anyway? If that is indeed what you are referring to.
Or so you mean that you can not boot to recovery mode in Ubuntu?

Anyway, booting to a recovery partition, or Ubuntu's recovery mode, has nothing to do with sharing files between Windows and Ubuntu using a fat32 partition.
I am not sure where you are going with this.

[jpaulb]

Do you mean the Windows 2000 recovery partition?
Are you able to boot both Ubuntu and Windows 2000 from the grub2 menu?
Why do you need to boot to the Windows 2000 recovery partition anyway? If that is indeed what you are referring to.
Or so you mean that you can not boot to recovery mode in Ubuntu?

Anyway, booting to a recovery partition, or Ubuntu's recovery mode, has nothing to do with sharing files between Windows and Ubuntu using a fat32 partition.
I am not sure where you are going with this.

It is best I start a new thread.

[maestrobwh1]

I'd really use NTFS with the ntfs-3g driver.

I have been doing this since ntfs-3g was available. I have never had data loss on ntfs... have had it on fat32 several times. It is an antiquated (okay, maybe that is harsh and an opinion) and inferior file system... and if you ever intend on storing a file larger than 4 GB (dvd iso for example) you can't.

[jpaulb]

I'd really use NTFS with the ntfs-3g driver.

I have been doing this since ntfs-3g was available. I have never had data loss on ntfs... have had it on fat32 several times. It is an antiquated (okay, maybe that is harsh and an opinion) and inferior file system... and if you ever intend on storing a file larger than 4 GB (dvd iso for example) you can't.

The share partition is not formatted as NTFS. Had to use windows to do that since gparted can not.

[jpaulb]

Now that I have the the other issue solved.
How do I get both Windows and Ubuntu to use the newly created NTFS partition for sharing data, browser and mail etc.

[tommcd]

How do I get both Windows and Ubuntu to use the newly created NTFS partition for sharing data, browser and mail etc.
This is covered in the reference I linked to in a previous post.
To mount Windows partitions in Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions
And to edit your /etc/fstab file so the NTFS partition is mounted automatically:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions
Windows should find the NTFS partition and and enable you to read and write to it.