Re: Moving boot partition from sda4 to sda1

On 2008-06-30, Geoffrey Clements <geoffrey.clementsNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not sure I know what a "distributed backup" is but to exchange files with Xp
I'd stick a VFAT filesystem on sda3 although I believe the NTFS drivers for
Linux are much better at writing these days. However, if VB is anything like
QEMU you can read non-Windows native filesystems from Windows so this may
not be necessary.

You can get freeware ext2 reading/writing software for Windows, I use
it on my toy laptop that I take to customer sites to check up on info
on the web, and to watch movies in hotel rooms. I take film files
with me on an ext2 formatted disc which I also use to store some linux
stuff so don't want to use vfat (it doesn't like some filenames,
e.g. anything with a colon in it).

http://www.fs-driver.org/

So far it's worked well but I'm not a heavy user. You can of course
format the filesystem for ext3 but if the ext3 filesystem is not
mounted properly there will be un-committed journal entries, and the
windows software takes note of those and realises that the filesystem
has been whacked on the head so correctly decides not to mount it as
an ext2 filesystem, as it can't cope with replaying the journal and
isn't prepared to potentially change the underlying ext2 system when
there's a journal replay in the offing.

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