Patrick Dixon;208569 Wrote: 
> Although this may seem a bit of a pita, in the long run, if you are
> going with a linux machine, you will be better off not using ntfs. 
> Although there is some support for ntfs in linux, AFAIK it's been
> reverse engineered and up until about a year ago (when I last looked)
> it was read only anyway.

NTFS read/write support, at least in Ubuntu, is provided with a fairly
new package called ntfs-3g.  Yes, it is a kludge.  You won't have the
jounalling, self-checking and robustness you'll get with ext3.


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