[lug] Setting up NTFS partition on Dual boot Microsoft/Linux machine

[Lori Reed]

Gordon Golding wrote:

>   I'm going to set up a laptop for dual boot.
> 
> In the past, I always just used FAT32 as a "sharing/communications area" 
> between the 2 boots.

If you have 2GB or more of RAM, instead of dual boot, you may find it 
more convenient to run windoze in a virtual machine and then use a 
shared folder in your Linux system.

Instead of copying you can just move files so it's faster and with 
better disk utilization.

I like VirtualBox.
http://www.virtualbox.org/

Lori