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Sharing Drive Between Ubuntu and Windows 7

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Mar 15, 20266374 views
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I'm dual booting between Win7 and Ubuntu 8.10. Is there anything special I need to do to share a drive between the two? Or since they're on different file systems you cannot? For example a partition that holds mp3s.

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Fix for: Sharing Drive Between Ubuntu and Windows 7

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One other option is to use a driver like Ext2 IFS For Windows to make Windows read/write the file system your Ubuntu runs on (should be ext2 or ext3). I have used this approach with Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.10 & 9.04 successfully. I had my Thunderbir…

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