ntfs READ is rock solid in linux, never tried to write, but in the new 2.6 partly stabile write support is
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:11, Jonas Widarsson wrote: > Tom Wesley wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:57, Ric Messier wrote: > > > > > >>On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote: > >> > >> > >>>>Well... XP home does not support NTFS. > >>>>Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable... > >>> > >>> > >>Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a > >>couple of times with NTFS. > >> > >>Ric > >> > >> > > > >Given that, Jonas, have you tried `convert` from the command line? > > > > > OH SHT! > I didn't know of that! > > Seems like doing it, but I'm suspicious about NTFS and the linux kernel. > Has it got out of EXPERIMENTAL ? > > I lost a great deal of data using mandrake one year ago and writing one > file to an NTFS partition. (it was backed up though) > All files disappeared. Folders left undestroyed. > > And what about permissions in NTFS when XP doesn't even have a decent > way to manage it... Not like w2k anyway. > maybe the GUI changes its behaviour when filesystem type changes? > Yeah, I know. "discuss that somewhere else, kid." > > Jonas > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
