On Friday 09 Sep 2005 17:20, Iggep wrote: > > You never want to convert NTFS to Fat. You lose a lot of security, > above and beyond anything else. A much better option, if you have to > share files between OSs is to create a FAT partition specifically for > that. Linux has no problem reading fiels from NTFS, but bad things > sometimes happen when you try writing to NTFS. And that's because MS > refuses to release the tech specs on it for the public to use. Which is > why most drivers are specifically written with write turned off. > > So, create a small fat partition for transferring files from Linux to > Windows. And just read the files from whatever directory they are on in > Windows (/mnt/windows/whatever).
After many years of experience (even though not recently) I always create a data partition. I can convert the system partition and know that my data is all on the shareable partition. I'll do it as soon as I have completely configured/updated 2005LE. Anne
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