On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 06:43 -0500, Kevin K wrote:
On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote:
My dual-booting, actually tri-booting, with Vista (ugh!), Centos (brilliant) and Fedora 14 (not keen and a bit seriously buggy) allows me in Linux to access and change the file space content used by the other two operating systems. Surely that constitutes simultaneous access to storage?
If you are tri-booting, how are you accessing the file systems of the other OS's "at the same time"? Don't you have to reboot to change OS's?
No re-booting is necessary when running Centos 5.5. Besides I am 'lazy' and hate re-booting because it so time wasting.
On one machine running Centos 5.5 I have in /etc/fstab
/dev/sda5 /nos.f14 ext4 auto 0 0
/nos.f14 is a pre-created, but empty, directory used as the mounting point for, in this instance, Fedora 14.
On another machine (the tri-boot machine) I also run Centos 5.5 and in that /etc/fstab I have
/dev/sda3 /z-vista/ ntfs-3g auto,umask=0000,defaults 0 0 /dev/sda7 /z-fedora/ ext4 defaults 1 2
The z-vista and z-fedora are empty root directories used as mounting points. Obviously you can use any name you prefer.
Being honest I have to point-out that I can not remember what the 0 0 or the 1 2 actually mean.
It works. I can access and change the Vista 'drive' contents and the also the entire Fedora 'drive'. If I wanted to access, on that machine, Vista's two extra drives (System & Resources) then I would add to /etc/fstab something like
/dev/sda1 /z-system/ ntfs-3g auto,umask=0000,defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 /z-resources/ ntfs-3g auto,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
Hope that helps.
With best regards,
Paul. England, EU.