question about dual-booting/partitioning?

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I'm looking into partitioning my hard drive between windows 8 and linux ubuntu. I've never done anything of the sort, so i'm wondering how it works. If I save files while I'm running it as Ubuntu, will I be able to access those same files if I'm running it as Windows 8, say, the next day?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '13 at 06:36

Ubuntu and Windows use different partition types. Windows cannot normally read ext4 partitions.

My solution to this is to create an extra NTFS partition where I keep my documents, pictures etc.

I modified /etc/fstab to automount this partition on boot.

Then I modified the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to point them to the folders in the extra partition.

I did a similar procedure to tell Windows where are my documents, pictures etc folders.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 12 '13 at 06:33

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It takes some work to see files in Ubuntu from Windows, but from inside Ubuntu it's really easy to access your Windows file structure. And you can always store things online using Dropbox, Google Drive, or (I think) Ubuntu One.

edited Jul 12 '13 at 06:33

Manuel

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answered Jul 12 '13 at 04:53

Atrytone

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question about dual-booting/partitioning?

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