No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 1 16:50:48 UTC 2008


On Friday 01 August 2008 16:56:44 Nigel Henry wrote:
> I don't want this thread of mine to drift off from the subject, but is it
> as easy to set up ext2 partitions, as read/write, so that no matter which
> Linux distro I have booted at the time, I can write/read data to them?

You shouldn't have any problems for data partitions - as long as there is no 
system access it's fine.  My main data partitions are on my CentOS box and I 
frequently open and write to files from my Mandriva laptop as well as an F9 
box.

I'd recommend ext3 rather than ext2, though.

Anne
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