Re: General Linux Laptoppin'

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

the only user space driver i am aware of uses microsoft's own ntfs drivers

are you thinking of something other than captive ntfs?

Casey


On 31 Jan 2005 15:37:54 -0800, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
> 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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> -----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
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
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