writable file system for windows

[Kevin Smith]

Hi--  My question is really directed at which type of file system I 
should choose for the shared area (bsd/windows) when I do the 
partitioning, rather than access.  I seem to be able to mount NTFS 
partitions and read them, but my understanding is that they are unsafe 
to write to from bsd.  At least on Linux this is the case.  I want to be 
able to write files from bsd and read them in windows.  The ext2fs 
system seems like one way, but I was hoping that I could use a native 
windows/dos file system that would not require any special mounting on 
the windows side.

-K


Olivier Gautherot wrote:

> Hi kevin!
>
>
>> I'm  happily running 5.3-Release on a dual-boot system with windows.  
>> I have my NTFS partition mounted read-only on bsd so I can get files 
>> from windows.
>> What is the safest method of writing files from bsd so that windows 
>> can read them ?  Should I create a FAT partition in windows and mount 
>> this one rw for this purpose ?
>
>
> If you have no restrictions regarding ACL, this is the quickest way to 
> do so.
>
> You can also create an ext2fs file system, that can be mounted 
> read-only under Windows using Cygwin ;-)
>
> Cheers
>    Olivier
>