On Friday 09 Sep 2005 17:01, Rick Kunath wrote: > 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. Yes I've always done the same > > 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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