On Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:54:59 PM, ET wrote: E> rikona wrote: >> On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote: >> >> M> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote: >> >>>> M> Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) >>>> >>>> ...It is a matter of reliability, as I understand it. Several >>>> linuxes will write ntfs, but occasionally might trash the file >>>> system beyond repair. Is Knoppix known to be 'bullet-proof' on ntfs >>>> writes? >> >> M> Pretty much. It (whatever "it" is) will only do what is reliable, >> M> so if you try to write or delete a file and it cannot be done >> M> safely, then it just doesn't do it. It's happened to me only a >> M> couple times. >> >> Very nice. Can you do massive writes reliably, like copying the >> contents [say 100,000 files/dirs] of a 100 Gig partition? >> >> Is there any documentation on this, showing what can and can't be >> done? Or any fairly rigorous testing? I'm VERY interested in a linux >> that is bullet-proof with ntfs writes - particularly one that can be >> run from CD/DVD. >> E> there are commercial products to do this,
Last I checked they were fairly expensive... E> or you can do it over the network. That, I presume, uses the M$ code at the other end. I do that kind of thing now, unless you're referring to something else. E> "Ultimate boot disk" for gets around this by using the NTFS lic on E> the windows partition. Are you saying UBD uses the code on the Win disk? The case I am interested in has ntfs partitions but Win is not on them - just data files. Are you suggesting this is just a licensing issue, or is there a tech part? E> there is more than one (more than 3) versions of NTFS... I can believe M$ comes out with a new 'upgrade' every time the linux folks are able to write reliably. :-(( -- Thanks, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
