sleepkyng Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Hey y'all, I'm just a noob - but I want to try and put xp, ubuntu and os x on my acer travelmate c110ti. But I'm wondering if I can give each OS a small footprint and have them all draw big data (music files, movies, photos) from the same partition (the big un'). Is that possible? what format would i partition it in? thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51861-tri-boot-with-a-big-shared-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailfish Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 That will work. Just have a big dos partition last if you want (not NTFS). That way Mac can write to it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51861-tri-boot-with-a-big-shared-partition/#findComment-370463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Yep. FAT32 would be the way to go. Windows, Linux, and MacOS X can all read and write to that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51861-tri-boot-with-a-big-shared-partition/#findComment-370538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysaor Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 FAT32 is not a good choice if you have large files (4GB+), limit file size is 4GB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51861-tri-boot-with-a-big-shared-partition/#findComment-370542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepkyng Posted May 23, 2007 Author Share Posted May 23, 2007 cool! so just make 4 partitions? thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51861-tri-boot-with-a-big-shared-partition/#findComment-370595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 FAT32 is not a good choice if you have large files (4GB+), limit file size is 4GB. What format would you recommend then? NTFS isn't writable in OS X, and HFS+ isn't even viewable in Windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51861-tri-boot-with-a-big-shared-partition/#findComment-370650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysaor Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 What format would you recommend then? NTFS isn't writable in OS X, and HFS+ isn't even viewable in Windows. OS X can read/write to NTFS with MacFUSE. Windows can read/write to HFS+ with MacDrive. There is another alternative, make the shared drive ext2. Both OS X and Windows have ext2 drivers, which enables r/w support. Drivers are open source and free. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51861-tri-boot-with-a-big-shared-partition/#findComment-370656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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