On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:49 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
Okay, more so then. Kernel support for reading NTFS probably came before fdisk support for creating and recognizing NTFS filesystems. Again, I couldn't find any real dates. Maybe I'm wrong.
fdisk doesn't do anything with filesystems; it merely carves the partitions within which filesystems may reside.
The fact that fdisk allows you to create a partition and mark it as an NTFS type partition means absolutely nothing. You merely then have an empty partition claiming that an NTFS filesystem can or does reside within it.
In the unix/linux/bsd world, it's mkfs (and friends) that create filesystems, and I have yet to find NTFS support on anything non- Microsoft that's capable of doing reliable read-write of NTFS filesystems or creating NTFS filesystems (and Partition Magic doesn't count.)
So, to say that fdisk can create NTFS partitions is technically correct. However, those partitions won't have an NTFS filesystem in them.
SOME Linux distributions do include a read-only NTFS filesystem driver, though, to allow you to get some data off an NTFS-formatted partition.
It can all be rather confusing. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu
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