Re: General Linux Laptoppin'

[Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

Linux can write NTFS.
It just won't by default because it's dangerous to do so from any OS installation (even NT), except the one that created it with its SAM/SIDs.
There is a user-space driver for Linux that reads the SAM/SIDs so it can safely do so.

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Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
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-----Original Message-----
From:  Robert Citek 
Date:  05-1-31 14:18
To:  silug-discuss@silug.org
Subj:  Re: General Linux Laptoppin'


On Monday, Jan 31, 2005, at 16:03 US/Central, Ray Holtz wrote:
> Then a minute later I took a regular Windows XP CD and did a complete 
> reinstall of XP.  I put XP on a 40% partition with NTFS, made a 10% 
> fat32 partition, then a day or two later installed Redhat 8 on the 
> other 50% of the drive.  The fat32 partition is a nice spot to place 
> files you want to be writable to both OSes.  Even though Linux can 
> read NTFS it can't write to it, so the Fat32 partition comes in handy 
> so I can work with files from both sides of the hard drive.

You can probably do away with the fat32 since Windows can read ext2/3 
(not write) and Linux can read NTFS (not write).  BTW, Mac OS/X can 
read and write to ext2.  More info:

   http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Filesystems

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- Robert
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