"Melic" <sberafvp@zy1.arg> wrote in message
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>> You will need to use a file system for the drive partition where
>> you save the TrueCrypt file so you can read it from Windows and
>> Linux.
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> What is that supposed to mean?
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> FAT? NTFS???
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> Thank you
You're the one wanting to install or use Linux so you are the one that
should know that file systems it will support (for whatever "flavor"
of Linux you install) that are also supported by Windows. Both
operating systems have to support the same file system, the file
system on the partition where you will be storing the TrueCrypt
"container" file, and the file that you want to access from that file
system whether you boot under Linux or Windows. FAT and VFAT are
probably supported by whatever flavor of Linux that you chose to use.
At
http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginne...rtitioning.php,
read the 4th paragraph. You can get software to provide transparent
support for NTFS partitions under Linux, like from Paragon. You could
put the TC container file on an ext2 or ext3 partition which Redhat
understands but you would need to add an IFS (installable file system)
in Windows to let you read that ext2/3 partition.
I assumed you would want to access the file from either Windows or
Linux. Could be you boot into one or the other OS on the same and
then access the file; i.e., maybe you are dual- or multi-booting
between different operating systems. Could be you have each OS
running concurrently, like with Virtual PC or for 2 networked hosts,
one Windows and one Linux, and want both to access the file. I don't
know if TrueCrypt supports concurrent opens of the same container file
but you didn't mention that requirement, so I also assumed that you
wanted to access from one OS at a time.
Could be you want it only on the Linux host but access it from a
Windows host and might use Samba to provide the file access from
Windows to Linux. You install TrueCrypt on your Linux host (running)
and the Samba server also on your Linux host, and then use the Samba
client on Windows (running) to access that .tc file across the
network. You have both hosts running at the same time and access the
file across the network. Then you don't care what file system is used
on the host where is the .tc file. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_%28software%29.
Too much of your setup is unknown to make absolute statements about
what will work for you. If you have both hosts running, one Windows
and one Linux, and want to access the .tc file at the same time (via
network or virtual machines), remember that TrueCrypt is manipulating
a file and there will be problems with concurrent access from multiple
operating systems trying to open simultaneous handles on the same
file. According to
http://www.truecrypt.org/faq.php, you will need to
open the .tc file in read-only mode; i.e., TrueCrypt is not really
designed for networked or concurrent access.
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