[plug] download partition

[Harry McNally]

At 12:12 PM 03/06/2001, you wrote:
>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.

Hmmm, I guess I was being a bit obtuse and my answer was based on what I am 
attempting at the moment. Try again ..

Yes, Greg's suggestion is quite correct but I'm interested in Ari's 
intention with this common copy area (as you've discussed in a later post, 
Christian). I'm currently moving across to Linux but rely on some Windoze 
software for my work; FrameMaker, Protel (PCB design), et al. I've loaded 
Win4Lin and found a problem mapping native doze drive C as a DOS partition 
visible to WIn4Lin. The support people advise I've found a bug .. lucky 
lucky. But mounting it under Linux and pointing Win4Lin at it as a Linux 
device has got this going. Next is to try VMWare to see if it's fast enough 
that I can exorcise all of the EvilOnes software from my system (fellow 
newbies .. Win4Lin requires a copy of doze).

The point (finally) is I need to flit between native doze and Linux for a 
bit so I'm keeping all of my project data on the DOS partition until I can 
move across permanently to Linux. But if Ari intends to keep doze (for 
games,etc) then it might be worth thinking about what sort of data needs to 
be shared between the two OSes. Why put stuff useful only to Linux on a 
crappy old FAT partition (a separate one or otherwise) ? My question about 
security was a leading one because I suspected that utilities allowed 
access to the Linux fs2's. Exposing the fs2 partitions to doze seems a 
waste of the effort to make Linux secure. Is this true or am I missing 
something ?

Cowers in newbie bunker waiting for Christian's critique :)

Harry