On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Chris Kosanovich wrote:

> I just want to reitterate what cory said here and emphisize it a little 
> more. Writting to an NTFS partion from linux is not just risky it is 
> DANGEROUS, every time you write to the NTFS partition you have to go and 
> run checkdisk and fix all of the errors that occur from writting to it. 
> They are rewriting the NTFS writing code and it is getting better so if 
> you insist on writing to an NTFS partition use the new stuff (i.e. not 
> the 2.4 kernel version) but i would strongly suggest making it FAT 32 if 
> you are going to write to it. As for reading from it that works fine, 
> you just have to have it enabled in the kernel or loaded as a module.

Or, you could make it ext3 or whatever and use cygwin transparently on the
windows side.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd


Justin


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