[mythtv-users] Multi-gigabyte shared r/w partitions

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 15:34:27 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Calvin Harrigan <
charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I've been running mythtv for at least 5 years now, I'm happy as a clam with
> it.  Recently I became interested in renting movies online via
> itunes/netflix/etc.  Unfortunately none of these run in linux, so I
> installed windows XP on my mythtv box ( I know, the horror, the hardware
> didn't even know what windows was until that day.).  Now I have a dual boot
> machine that works quite well.  The problem is that the OSes, swap, boot
> partitions are on smaller system drive while the media is stored on a single
> partition 750GB EXT3 drive.  I'm looking for a way for windows to r/w to the
> ext3 partition or at least read without having linux run the file check
> every time I boot into windows.  I've tried Ext2 IFS driver found at
> http://www.fs-driver.org but that doesn't work because the inodes in the
> ext3 partition is > 128 bytes.  I'm not willing/able to find somewhere to
> store 500 gigs of data, reformat, and copy back.  I was thinking that
> someone has had to come across such a scenario before and hopefully found a
> solution.  Are there any other file systems that I can use that is r/w from
> windows and linux?  FAT32 is obviously not an option.
>
> Thanks
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I had a 500gb external drive where I used NTFS as the common file system
between Windows XP, Ubuntu Linux & MacOS X, using the NTFS3g drivers on the
Mac & Linux boxes.  It seemed to work well enough; transfer speeds were
reasonable, and I never lost data.  Another solution (though more hardware
intensive) may be to build a NAS type of machine and use Samba to connect
from your media machine, regardless of the OS your running, then the file
system on the drive is irrelevant.

Good luck

Josh
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