Kevin K wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >>> It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which >>> forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for >>> simultaneous access to features (and storage) of both, and generally >>> necessitates use of some low-standard transfer storage partition (e.g.: >>> vfat). >> >> 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? I think Paul's point was that ntfs-3g provides write access to NTFS, so you no longer have to use a vfat transfer partition to exchange files between linux and ms windows.