marckell Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 This may be covered in another topic, but how do people share files between their various multi-boot OSs? I'm thinking of having one large partition on a 2nd drive that all files could be dumped to and accessible (like a photoshop file created on the Mac, but accessible in Windows). I'm not thinking an external USB piece of hardware of any kind. mk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114357-shared-file-system-for-multibooting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I use a large MACOS extended partition to share between windows and OSX. I have installed a third party app to give windows read/write capabilities. I'm not running linux right now but I believe it can read/write to the mac file system as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114357-shared-file-system-for-multibooting/#findComment-810005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I use my Windows swap partition formatted as FAT32. Windows sure isn't using it when any of the other OSes are running. File size is limited, but that's the only drawback. It depends on what kind of files you're sharing. I also have an HPFS partition (not HPFS+), without journaling, that I can read-write to from both Linux and OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114357-shared-file-system-for-multibooting/#findComment-811098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny V Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I have a separate partition formated with FAT32 for Vista and Leopard sharing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114357-shared-file-system-for-multibooting/#findComment-811180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas_man Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 use a Fat/fat32 or NTFS partition to share your data. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114357-shared-file-system-for-multibooting/#findComment-812242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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