Re: FixMbr?

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"Stephen Harris" wrote:

ManyBeers wrote:

Let me ask you a question. Have you put this software on your dual boot
setup?
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html. It reads and writes to ext2/3 for
Windows.
My Ubuntu install is now L: drive in Windows and Swap is S: drive.I named
them.

No, I didn't know anything about it. I see one warning,
"If you mount an Ext3 file system as an Ext2 file system and the file
system is not cleanly dismounted, (e.g. due to a system crash), you have
to run the e2fsck tool. (Linux does it automatically.) Running e2fsck
can take several hours on large volumes. You do not benefit from
journaling the Ext3 file system, because you have to run e2fsck."

I ran the automatic install for installing Ubuntu on the largest free
space. I think it made everything Ext3 except the swap file which is 82.

I deleted most of the Acronis Secure Zone which is fat32. So I had
a partition which Linux and Windows could share.
mkdir /mnt/share
mount -t msdos(or vfat) /dev/sda5(my fat32 F: drive) /mnt/share
Then you also have to umount it so one can make manual scripts for
both operations which is like a batch file or put it in fstab which
is automatic. So you can transfer files, but it takes reboots.
This Ext2IFS_1_11.exe may very well work better.
You can email me at "TeX" plus "tonyx", one word, at gmail dot com.
since the topic is drifting away from Windows XP, if you like.

The only reason I asked about the exts read/write software is because the
other day Windows
left some kind of 1kb file on the drive without me knowing about it. I don't
know if that would be a problem or not. Ubuntu doesn't show the file. I might
reinstall the program and set the Linux
drives as read only to avoid that situation from happening again. I don't
see any way of doing it
from within Windows.
.

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