[plug] download partition

[Harry McNally]

At 09:47 AM 03/06/2001, you wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Ari Finander wrote:
> > Is there anything wrong with having a separate FAT partition on my HDD
> > to be used as a partition for downloaded files and such for my linux
> > and windows 98 partitions to both access?
>
>Nothing wrong at all, it's a very good idea. Is there a reason you can't
>just use an existing subdirectory of your win98 partition, though?
>
>-Greg Mildenhall

The only circumstance I can see this would be inconvenient is when you have 
left something in the Linux partition and booted into doze. Unlike Linux 
which can mount the FAT partition and fiddle with it willy nilly, my 
understanding is that there is no way to access the Linux partition from 
doze. I hope so because, from a security viewpoint, access to Linux from 
the errr less_than_robust doze would be a BadThing. Is my assumption true 
or has some dill created such a utility ?

Harry

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