First, I don't profess to be a Linux guru, but I'm pretty sure both Linux and, of course, Windows can read and write to fat32. Linux is able to read ntfs, but not write to ntfs (actually I think you can do some tweaking and make some distros write to ntfs, but I'm afraid I can't tell you much more on that). Windows, to the best of my knowledge, is unable to read or write to any of the native Linux file systems (I could very well be wrong about that as well), but try Fat32, I think that will work. As far as Open Office, it's pretty much the same deal, Open Office will open MS Office apps, and you have the option to save Open Office apps in MS Office formats, but MS Office will not open Open Office formats. Hope that answers your questions - Gary
Is there any File system common to both Windows and Linux? I have a 37.2GB HDD partitioned 9.3 (C: Windows XP Home Edition, NTFS), 18.6 (D: Songs, etc, NTFS) and 9.3 (F: Redhat Linux 9, ext3). I have a lot of songs in D: as mentioned earlier and would like to play them on Linux as well, but the unfortunate fact is that Linux doesn't support NTFS (that's what it looks like). Is there any common Filesystem so both can share files?
Also, OpenOffice.org (Linux Office Suite) boasts of compatibility with the MS Office Applications, but how will that be possible if they cant recognize each others' file systems? Please suggest a solution. Help in plain english would be appreciated, I'm not pretty much familiar with technical terms.

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