On 04/23/2007 09:36 PM, Russell Butler wrote: > Matt Needles wrote: >><disclaimer> >> I have not yet read all this thread, but have the gist of it. >> </disclaimer> >> >> I have tested Knoppix, Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora Core versions 2-6, and >> OpenSuse 10.1, and find that, of these, one feature pops out as best in >> OpenSuse: the support for NTFS. This is vital for people migrating from >> WinXP, if you want to copy files from your Windows partition to a Linux >> partition. >> >> I found it difficult in OpenSuse to get updates to OOo, though. Fedora >> was much easier, in which I just uninstalled the Fedora version and >> installed the official OOo version. >> >> Just my $.02, >> Matt > > Hi Matt > > Just $.005 of correction there. I have had no problem _reading_ from an > NTFS partition in Mandriva, ubuntu or gentoo. The problem is writing to > NTFS which is not guaranteed by most distros. > > Regards > > Russell
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ That works for me. And if you dual-boot and want to read-write to your linux drives from the Windows side, try: http://www.fs-driver.org/ Links that you might want to bookmark: For Ubuntu: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#Windows Scroll down to: How to mount Windows partitions (NTFS) on boot-up, and allow users read and write access (Note: ntfs-3g is no longer beta) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
