Q. I have windows XP on my HD and I am about to install Ubuntu on the same one. Then I have a second HD that i want my home directory to be for Ubuntu, and Windows files. I want to know what file system to use so that it is completely compatible with both windows and ubuntu. I dont need if for any really big files like anything bigger than 2 GB. Thanks!
A. You may have trouble getting ubuntu to use NTFS file directory as your /home partition. I suggest you make your share partition somewhere else. /media/share or something like that. It wouldn't be particularly wise to use a linux /home partition as a windows share anyway, but if you insist on it you will find that even though linux CAN use NTFS as your /home directory, it will refuse to set one up on install. It will give you an error and tell you to use a linux filesystem.
It is, however, possible to use NTFS by adding the partition in fstab and telling it to mount at /home. You will need to create a copy of your user folder into the partition before you mount it. It may be tricky to export your user folder to the new partition, then delete the old one. You'll need to do this as root, from tty1 (ctrl-alt-F1) and you'll want to make sure your username is logged out (and X probably stopped with "/etc/init.d/gdm stop") before you do it.
If this sounds too tricky, don't try it, just make yourself a share partition and don't mount it at /home because like I said, it's unwise to use your /home partition as a share partition anyway.
But yeah, short answer, use NTFS.
It is, however, possible to use NTFS by adding the partition in fstab and telling it to mount at /home. You will need to create a copy of your user folder into the partition before you mount it. It may be tricky to export your user folder to the new partition, then delete the old one. You'll need to do this as root, from tty1 (ctrl-alt-F1) and you'll want to make sure your username is logged out (and X probably stopped with "/etc/init.d/gdm stop") before you do it.
If this sounds too tricky, don't try it, just make yourself a share partition and don't mount it at /home because like I said, it's unwise to use your /home partition as a share partition anyway.
But yeah, short answer, use NTFS.
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