Hello Shridhar,
you must be correct. I had ignored the warning and opted for the read
write pointer. I have never compiled the kernel, but i want to give it a
shot. i was not aware that you could compile just a module. how is this
done. Is there a place where I can RTFM ? Another word of caution
though, i read somewhere that the w2k NTFS differs from the winNT4.0
NTFS. Keeping a 300MB FAT for communicating with NT is a good idea.
Regards,
mario
p.s. after the unfortunate incident where I thrashed my NTFS partition,
my sys admin and my boss, decided that i would have to delete my LINUX
and work only with win NT :o( I wouldn't want any one else to suffer a
similar fate.
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> A small correction, NTFS read only driver is pretty stable but read write may be
> dangerous. So NTFS is no problem. Also if you compile NTFS as module, no need to
> recompile whole kernel. Just compile the modules...
>
> I use NTFS regularly with Mandrake 7.1as a module. But I have kept a 300MB FAT
> partition for communicationg with NT....
>
> Please corredct me if I am incorrect... :-))
>
> Bye
> Shridhar
>
> Mario da Costa wrote:
>
> > you may not be able to mount an NTFS partition w/o recompiling the
> > kernel. This is a very dangerous thing to do as it can thrash your NTFS
> > partition. I had a terrible experiance when one of my friends recompiled
> > my RH kernal to access my NTFS partition. So please be careful to back
> > up your data first.
>
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