Linux uses the standard MS-DOS partitioning scheme, so it can share your disk with other operating systems. Note, however, that many other operating systems may not be exactly compatible. DOS's FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.EXE, for example, can overwrite data in a Linux partition, because they sometimes incorrectly use partition data from the partition's boot sector rather than the partition table. In order to prevent programs from doing this, it is a good idea to zero out—under Linux—the start of a partition you created, before you use MS-DOS—or whatever—to format it.

Type: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXY bs=512 count=1 where hdXY is the relevant partition; e.g., /dev/hda1 for the first partition of the first (IDE) disk. Linux can read and write the files on your DOS and OS/2 FAT partitions and floppies using either the DOS file system type built into the kernel or mtools.

There is kernel support for the VFAT file system used by Windows 9x and Windows NT. There is reportedly a GPL'd OS/2 device driver that will read and write Linux ext2 partitions. For information about FAT32 partition support, see. See, (``') for details and status of the emulators for DOS, MS Windows, and System V programs. See also, 'Can Linux access Amiga file systems? ', 'Can Linux access Macintosh file systems? ', 'Can Linux access BSD, SysV, etc., UFS?

When the new Apple File System will be available The “ next-generation file system for Apple products ” was introduced with the launch of iOS 10.3, macOS 10.12.4, tvOS 10.2 and watchOS 3.2 on. As a test we plugged it into the old Mac and it did read it perfectly fine, then in the T420 and bang that worked 100% as well and this was an old old little Now I would like to make this new Seagate drive compatible between Mac and Windows as well. What do I need to know and where do I start?

', and 'Can Linux access SMB file systems? ' There are said to be NTFS drivers under development, which should support compression as a standard feature. Use the DOS file system, type, for example: $ mkdir /dos $ mount -t msdos -o conv=text,umask=022,uid=100,gid=100 /dev/hda3 /dos If it's a floppy, don't forget to umount it before ejecting it! You can use the conv=text/binary/auto, umask=nnn, uid=nnn, and gid=nnn options to control the automatic line-ending conversion, permissions and ownerships of the files in the DOS file system as they appear under Linux. If you mount your DOS file system by putting it in your /etc/fstab, you can record the options (comma-separated) there, instead of defaults. Alternatively, you can use mtools, available in both binary and source form on the FTP sites. (``') A kernel patch (known as the fd-patches) is available which allows floppies with nonstandard numbers of tracks and/or sectors to be used; this patch is included in the 1.1 alpha testing kernel series.

The ext2compr project provides a kernel patch Information about them is located at. There is also a Web site for the e2compr patches. The code is still experimental and consists of patches for the 2.0 and 2.1 kernels.

For more information about the project, including the latest patches, and the address of the mailing list, look up the URL at. [Roderich Schupp, Peter Moulder] zlibc is a program that allows existing applications to read compressed (GNU gzip'ed) files as if they were not compressed.

The author is Alain Knaff. There is also a compressing block device driver, 'DouBle,' by Jean-Marc Verbavatz, which can provide on-the-fly disk compression in the kernel. The source-only distribution is located at. This driver compresses inodes and directory information as well as files, so any corruption of the file system is likely to be serious. There is also a package called tcx (Transparently Compressed Executables), which allows you to keep infrequently compressed executables compressed and only uncompress them temporarily when in use. It is located at.

The Linux kernel has support for the Amiga Fast File System (AFFS) version 1.3 and later, both as a compile-time option and as a module. The file Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt in the Linux kernel source distribution has more information.

See (``') Linux supports AFFS hard-drive partitions only. Floppy access is not supported due to incompatibilities between Amiga floppy controllers and PC and workstation controllers. The AFFS driver can also mount disk partitions used by the Un*x Amiga Emulator, by Bernd Schmidt. WINE, a MS Windows emulator for Linux, is still not ready for general distribution. If you want to contribute to its development, look for the status reports in the comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine newsgroup. There is also a FAQ, compiled by P.

David Gardner, at. In the meantime, if you need to run MS Windows programs, the best bet—seriously—is to reboot. LILO, the Linux boot loader, can boot one of several operating systems from a menu. See the LILO documentation for details. Free usb digital microscope software for mac. Also, LOADLIN.EXE (a DOS program to load a Linux, or other OS, kernel is one way to make Linux co-exist with DOS. LOADLIN.EXE is particularly handy when you want to install Linux on a 3rd or 4th drive on a system (or when you're adding a SCSI drive to a system with an existing IDE). In these cases, it is common for LILO's boot loader to be unable to find or load the kernel on the 'other' drive.