THANK YOU! On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 14:30 -0500, dragorn wrote:
> Just run fdisk and change the partition type. It's non-destructive to > the data on the partition. Just don't go changing the partition sizes. Absolutely perfect! This did not work with the Graphical Disk Utility, nor did it work with cfdisk. I never used fdisk for anything but listing. I did not even know it was a tool! I did check the man and help, but did not find enough info on how to get the job done. Fortunately I was able to dig up the needed info with a simple search on Google.com. I don't think I would even be a Linux user without the existence of search engines! > > You can address permission issues with non-linux partitions by changing > the mount options. For ntfs, -o uid=...,gid=...,umask=... will set it > to be owned by your user (or whoever). Good stuff.... Just got a little education on umask. > > NTFS is generally slow since the writeable ntfs support uses a user > daemon via fuse and pushes all the data out of the kernel, over a > socket, processed in userspace, then back again. It's fine for sharing > files but I wouldn't suggest running, say, a VM hosted on it, or other > large-volume tasks like that. I have only noticed slow behavior when first accessing the partition/mountpoint. > > If you find yourself doing a lot of cross-platform sharing you might > want to go network - gbit ethernet to a shared drive system (like drobo > or any of the other home SAN devices) might be just what you need. Or > keep using ntfs - it's cheap, and it's not that slow unless you're > trying to do everything in a ntfs partition. I don't do much cross platform.. It's just that my laptop only has a 60gig HD, so I like having the 30gig NTFS partition for downloads, scratch space etc. This is so I don't risk filling / or /home. Thanks again Eric > > -m > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > May 4 - Inkscape _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape
