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Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved

Posted by timothy on from the love-it-when-a-plan-comes-together dept.

Walter Vos writes "Since I've been running Vista and Ubuntu in dual boot with a shared FAT32 partition for my personal folders, I've been seeing some strange compatibility issues between these two operating systems. Somehow Vista locks the folders on the FAT32 partition that are used for folders like Documents, Downloads, etc. A blogpost I wrote gives a detailed description of the problem and a fix for it."

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  1. Re:FAT32 by niteice · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a couple of ext3 drivers for Windows (one open-source, one not) that also work pretty well, so you can go both ways.

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