ntfs and fedora

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Fri Dec 31 16:03:17 EST 2004


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There is a project, that supports full writing to ntfs, using a .sys file from your windows installation. I don't remember what the project is called though at the moment. Put in "ntfs" into freshmeat, and it should come up. Happy new year to all.

Greg


On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:33:16AM -0600, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> Linux supports reading ntfs just fine, but writing it is a little more
> iffy. There is support, but it is *experimental* because ntfs is a
> moving target and Microsoft in there infinite wisdom may change it in a
> way which breaks the support at any time. At least this is the
> impression I got from researching this a while back. So I guess using
> ntfs write support is at your own risk. You could always create a fat32
> partition somewhere where windows and linux can share data. That's not
> ideal, but then again you'll probably discover that neither is duel
> booting. One system tends to get used while the other remains unbooted
> for months. What exactly you are doing determines which OS is which.
> 
> HTH and happy new year
> 
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> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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