AppleIIGuy Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Ever needed to share a large hard drive between Mac OS X and your Win XP install? Here is How I did it. Caution This has only been tested on my Hackintosh. 1. (In OS X) Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ and download and install. 2. Boot into windows and use a partitioning system (I used Acronis Disk Director) to Make a partition with a type of Linux/Ext2 3. Install Ext2 IFS for Windows http://www.fs-driver.org/ then reboot into OS X 4. Use disk utility to find out the identifier ex 'disk2s5' was mine. open terminal type 'sudo -s' enter password then type 'newfs_ext2 /dev/disk2s5' change disk2s5 to your identifier. wait until it completes 5. Open up System Preferences select the ExtFSManager pane, select the disk and volume you formatted as ext2, select options and check Ignore Permissions, and then Mount it with the mount button. 6. Copy some files onto it that you need to share. Then boot into windows XP 7. Go to Settings --> Controll Panel --> IFS Drives and assign a drive letter to your efs2 partition. 8. Ther is no step 8! Share files away!! CAUTION -- CAUTION You do this at your own risk! I accept no responsibility for any damages Remember the programs mentioned in this Tutorial are in delelopment and most likely will crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I did never get that driver to work, but of course that was on 10.4.6 (with 10.4.4 kernel). Is it working now? What version of the Mac driver are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleIIGuy Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 I am using 1.4d4 but there are still a few bugs with it. Like deleting files causes a kernel panic. And using saving a file with textedit on the ext2 file system will cause a kernel panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Uhmm.. ok, that's what I thought since I seem to remember using 1.4d4 also. Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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