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yea, im a newb! we all were once, indeed. i am just curious about sharing a virtual partition with windows so i can access things like pics music and documents ...
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    sharing a partition

    yea, im a newb! we all were once, indeed. i am just curious about sharing a virtual partition with windows so i can access things like pics music and documents from either OS.... drop me a line, thanx
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    What do you mean with Virtual Partition? Is it a Type 2 Partition?
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    Well, an extended partition. Not like a page-file partition(SWAP).... virtual partitions mask what is made into an extended partition... so you can call it extended partition or virtual.... but im wanting to share between XP and Linux.... is there a way to do it between the two primarys?
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    You can share Primary as well as Logical partitions inside Extended easily. Windows OS doesn't support Linux filesystems but there are a few tools available to assign driver letter to Linux partitions in Windows OS and share data. Check fs-driver.org for that.

    In a few Linux distros, you have to manually mount Windows Partitions in Linux. Which Linux distro are you using?
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    Logical, thats right, im sorry. Ive had my nose stuck inside these textbooks so long its all starting to sound the same. well im using Fedora RedHat v8... thank you for all ur help
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    Fedora 8 support NTFS and FAT32 out of box. You have to mount partitions manually though. Post the output of fdisk -l command here.
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fdisk -l
df -h
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