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 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
