Excellent posting Brendan, just thought I'd comment on one aspect.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:24:57PM +1000, Brendan Dacre wrote:
>
> What version of Windows are you currently using? If you are using
> NT/2000/XP Professional and have an NTFS partition, I believe Linux can
> read NTFS, but I am not sure it can write to it (someone with more
> knowledge please correct me if I am wrong). Just make sure that with
> either dual booting or booting from windows, the version of Linux you
> install can read and write to your existing file system, safely.
NTFS cannot be written to OR read from safely.
The current version of NTFS reading code in kernels
2.2.x and 2.4.x is so bad that even mounting an
NTFS partition "readonly" is not guaranteed to be
safe, in that it can corrupt kernel memory. (and then
all bets are off)
The NTFS code in the dev kernels 2.5.x is supposed
to be much better already, but is still beta code
on a development kernel.
Regards,
Matt
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