[LUNI] FS for everyone?

Walker, Daniel dwa2c at Allstate.com
Tue Aug 13 15:47:11 CDT 2002


> 
> 
> I'm in the process of rebuilding my desktop.  I'm planning on 
> putting Red
> Hat and Debian on there, as well as FreeBSD and Windows XP.  
> I'd like to
> create a big empty partition that everyone can use to share 
> files.  I'm
> assuming that I'll have to make it NTFS, so that XP can read it?  Am I
> underestimating XP's ability to read UFS or ext2?  For that 
> matter, can
> FreeBSD read ext2?
> 
> What kind of options do I have for that shared slice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris


I think they can all read/write FAT32, and it's is well supported by all
your OS's.  NTFS is still a little buggy under linux.

-=danny=-



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