I access NTFS from Linux (read and write), and have had no issues. I'm using the native NTFS module in the 2.6.18 kernel.
Another option is captive-ntfs (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/), which is supposed to be really good, but from my experience was rather slow.... but aside of that, worked. On a side note, and OT ...I saw an add in a airplane magazine for a woman's business named "ORLY". I was in tears laughing for a few minutes... at least until everyone started looking at me. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Dale Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:44 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] file formats On 9/14/06, jason watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, the setup i am working to build > > i have a 160 gig hd > > i plan on shrinking windows xp down to 40 gigs then installing linux > to another 40 gig section. > > the other 80 gig, i want to format so that it can be read by both > windows and linux. > > i know ntfs is out, linux isnt so good at reading it. > i know fat16/32 are both useable by windows and linux. > > is there any other format i should consider useing that can be read by > both win and linux? > > reason for this is i plan to use the 80 gig section to "pass" video's > back and forth between they two. im expecting files to be between 1 and 2 gig. > (maybe smaller? not sure, dont have the files yet to know) I formatted mine to ext3 and used a Windows ext2 driver. There are two free (as in beer) drivers available - one is not open source: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html http://www.fs-driver.org/ (not OSS) I can't recall which one I actually use. But I've never had any problems with basic read/write. Another option is NTFS. The linux NTFS driver group are very active and have made a lot of progress. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ -- Robert Dale -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
