FYI - Those who aer going to use captive-ntfs (fuse), make sure you have your Windows XP cd nearby. It requires you copy two files from the CD (if I remember correctly -- you can also copy these off your HDD). I could not -- due to some checksum, or other crazy issue... But the CD worked fine.
Captive-ntfs / fuse was VERY slow reading NTFS for me.... so I abandoned it in favor of the linux kernel NTFS driver. I'm currently using gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4 and have NO issues reading or writing large files (my last trial was moving a 4gb video I had from EXT3 to NTFS), and deleting the file on the NTFS drive. I also have Windows XP running chkdsk at every boot ...to make sure the FS is sane. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Mack NA3T Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:39 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] file formats On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Stephen Roller wrote: > For the record, NTFS support on linux is very good and stable right now. > Read is perfect, and Write is decent. Last I checked, the NTFS module > built in the kernel could write, but not make new files or new > directories. there is the ntfs built on fuse http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ which they claim has no problems writing. (AFAIK this is not the ntfs in the kernel). I use one of the programs that allows ext3 to be mounted rw in windows, but I just use it occassionally and I've never written video files to it. Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- 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/
