On Mon May 10 2004 12:46, Andrew Graupe wrote: > Knoppix uses captive-ntfs, which uses some part of WINE to emulate the > Windows NTFS drivers, so it SHOULD be safe.
Should be, but WINE is alpha software so I doubt anyone is willing to guarantee results, especially when it comes to Windows drivers which can be all over the map. Even if WINE was totally solid for accessing Windows drivers, NTFS is an _extremely_ complex filesystem, and the drivers -- yes, even the Windows ones -- are not always 100% reliable (they get patched between versions and service packs, just like everything else). For maximum interoperability, it is still best to use FAT/FAT32. Curtis > Jason Louie wrote: > >I think the issues that caused you such grief was that you attempted to > > write to the HDD. You stated that Windows XP was on the HDD which would > > most-likely be using NTFS. Now to what I remember writing to a NTFS HDD > > can produce odd results. Some people even recommend not to write to NTFS > > under Linux since Microsoft is closed source and writing to NTFS is not > > perfected in Linux. > > > >I suggest you should do some reading into issues writing to NTFS from > > Linux. Best thing you should do is simply save your work to via samba or > > floppy and avoid wrting to the NTFS. > > > >On May 10, 2004 11:04, Andrew Graupe wrote: > >>To some extent I agree with what you say. That being said, Knoppix is > >>often used in conjunction with Windows. Also, they should make sure > >>that it does interoperate with Windows properly (like they claim). _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
