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07-21-2005, 07:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
ever_thus Junior Techie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 94	shared drive for linux/other OSes I'm about to set up my computer as a triple boot system: WinXPpro, Mandriva Linux & Solaris. I want to set up a fourth partition to share between all the OSes. How should I format the shared partition?

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FAT32. It is the format that all of the OSs will have the easiest time reading from and writing to.

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07-22-2005, 10:42 AM	#3 (permalink)
ever_thus Junior Techie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 94	I'll try that. BTW, I've decided to go with SuSe instead of Mandriva (my personal support base has more experience with that. ) Will that make a difference? Also, from which OS should I format the shared drive?

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Nope, it won't make a difference. And it will be easiest to format the drive in Windows.

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