John Bowden wrote:
I'm not sure if its still the case but linux used to have a problem writing to a ntfs file system unless it was on another machine, (using samba or one of the other networking protocols), due to m$ mucking around with ntfs.
Yes. You still can't write to an NTFS file system, but you can read it. (There are patches that allow limited writing with big limitations, but writing NTFS just isn't reliable enough to mess with.)
The answer was to convert ntfs to fat32. Though you then lose the file larger than 4 GB support
Not to mention file level security and file system journaling. In my opinion, staying with NTFS for the main Windows partition is the best choice.
If you do have to transfer files, either create a separate FAT32 partition for the purpose of moving files, or if you are using the EXT3 file system there are Windows drivers to read/write to the partition.
I prefer the Reiser file system on Linux over EXT3, so I can't write to it from Windows. I have a small FAT32 partition that I use when I need to move files from Linux to Windows. If you don't anticipate having to move files from Linux to Windows, you'll be able to read the Windows NTFS file system fine from inside Mandriva.
Writing to the MBR has nothing to do with the first partitions file system type.
Go ahead and write the MBR. Enjoy. Rick Kunath
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