[plug] download partition

[Christian]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:06:47AM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
> 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 ?

Huh?  Greg just said that he should store the files on his existing
Win98 partition in a subdirectory.  Therefore if he boots into Win98 it
will still be there.  The point being that there is no need to create a
separate partition/filesystem to do the job.