<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Calvin Harrigan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charriglists@bellsouth.net">charriglists@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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 <a href="http://www.fs-driver.org" target="_blank">http://www.fs-driver.org</a> 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.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>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. <br>
<br>Good luck<br><br>Josh<br>