Re: [newbie] Writing to NTFS with mandriva..Was formerly Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread CJ Kelley 


- Original Message 
From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org
Sent: Monday, January 1, 2007 12:46:36 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way 
to reduce that?

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:28:54 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote:

  Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) but
  for whatever reason, it can't be done--or done easily--in
  Mandriva. 

 thats probably because mandriva writes files to the hard disk
 in a different way. I noticed that if i save a multiline text
 file in mandriva and open that same file in windows, it will
 display a little block at the end of the line and it will not
 start a new line after the end of that block.

No, that has to do with linefeed characters which are different
between Winblows and *nix systems. It you have a text file in
Linux, you can run unix2dos filename.txt and it will switch
the linefeed chars to Winblows. dos2unix filename.txt does the
reverse.

Miark

cjs reply
oh ok.
So if i was to write to my NTFS partition with *nix and it wrecked it, would 
the partition be recoverable or would i have to rewrite my partition?
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Re: [newbie] Writing to NTFS with mandriva..Was formerly Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2007-01-01 Thread Miark 
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:36:01 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote:

  No, that has to do with linefeed characters which are
  different between Winblows and *nix systems. It you have a
  text file in Linux, you can run unix2dos filename.txt and
  it will switch the linefeed chars to Winblows. dos2unix
  filename.txt does the reverse.

 oh ok.
 So if i was to write to my NTFS partition with *nix and it
 wrecked it, would the partition be recoverable or would i have
 to rewrite my partition?

Mmmm, not sure I follow the question. Linefeeds aside, if you
write to an NTFS partition and the partition gets borked, you
could probably use any standard Windows harddrive program to
get files back. It would be a pain in the ass, of course.

Miark

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