Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > NTFS writing is still unstable in Linux.
It is. There have been two NTFS drivers for the 2.4 kernel series. The earlier one could made to enable write support, if you felt lucky, by editing a switch in the source code and recompiling. (The requirement to do source-code editing was intended to signal that you are doing something risky.) If you do that, you are strongly advised to do NT disk cleanup (whatever the thing that does that is called) immediately upon rebooting to NT, as there is a significant risk of filesystem corruption. The newer, replacement driver is rewritten from scratch, and is claimed to be superior to the old one, but so far entirely omits code for writing data to NTFS. Write code will be added at a later date. The Linux-NTFS project (who produce both the drivers and the NTFS-Utils package, which now has a beta-level ntfsresize utility for Linux) have been obliged to reverse-engineer NTFS from direct examination and experimentation, since Microsoft Corporation regards the necessary technical information as proprietary. > If you only have a disk image for WinXP (as I did), you indeed will > have trouble partitioning first and then installing WinXP. In that > case you can use the latest version of Partition magic, which now can > re-partition NTFS and Ext3, along with everything else. There are also some other options, which I detail here: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/ntfs -- Cheers, Rick Moen Emacs is a decent operating system, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it still lacks a good text editor. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
