I usually have a seperate HD, hdb as my backup drive. i save ALL my
files there.

i have symlinks to my files like this:

ls ~/Desktop/
Wallpaper
Scripts
Work
MP3
Themes
Movies

All those ^ folders are symlinks to the hdb1 partition. hdb1 is a
fat32.

becuase this is linux, its transparent. I also do the same thing in
Windows too, except they are shortcuts and aren't that good.

> Thanks for the prompt reply,
> My gentoo partitions are reiserfs and windows is ntfs. Are you
> suggesting I
> make a fat32 partition and save my work to that i.e. /home/work ?
> If so will
> windows find it ok or will I have to set it up, if so how?
>
> Thanks again
> Paul
>
> On Tue 17 June 2003 10:25, MooktaKiNG wrote:
>> Windows won't read or recognise linux partitions (ext2/3 etc etc).
>>
>> However there is a program called explore2fs, which can allow you
>> to
>> read, only read, linux partitions.
>>
>> Its very basic and takes LOTS of cpu power.
>>
>> I use it all the time when i'm not bothered to reboot to linux to
>> check something. Or i usually save most of my work on a fat32 and
>> symlink it to my home.
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> > My wifes windows XP machine is almost redundant and I have been
>> > trying to
>> > backup my gentoo box over the network onto a spare disk in the
>> other
>> > machine.
>> > I am just lost I cannot get windows to see gentoo.
>> > I have managed to transfer files the other way i.e. windoes to
>> > gentoo.
>> >
>> > Could anybody point me in the right direction or suggest any
>> docs
>> > that will
>> > lay out the procedure.
>> >
>> > Thanks in anticipation
>> > regards
>> > Paul
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