Sharing Thunderbird Mails Between Linux and Windows

Manish Kathuria manish at tuxspace.com
Wed Mar 29 04:03:00 UTC 2006


Dan wrote:

> I used to do this also, but have since just put them on my linux 
> partition because 1. I rarely use windows on this machine anymore, 2. I 
> hate FAT32, and 3. Thunderbird would have to rebuild summaries or 
> something every time I opened a folder for the first time (including on 
> startup). If I was to still share it, though, I would do what I'm now 
> doing on my desktop: make the FAT32 partition into an ext2 partition, 
> and get the driver for windows at http://www.fs-driver.org . Excellent, 
> easy to use, minimal problems, and I don't think you'd have any of the 
> issues of FAT32's suckiness. ;) You could also make it ext3, but either 
> way Windows would use it as an ext2 (w/o journaling for filesystem 
> stability).
> -Dan
> 

Thanks, I didnt know about this driver. Will check it out. I hope it 
wont create a mess on the partition.




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