Linux newbie questions

[smith at missioncriticallinux.com (Jeffry Smith)]

Ryan L. Kitchen said:
> 
> The 2.4.0 Kernel has file options for both NTFS and dos/windows write and
> read options.  These, as before mentioned, must be built in. Write in NTFS
> is a little shaky, but mounting a NT2000 partition and reading from it is
> no trouble after the options are built into the Kernel (in 2.4.0)...

Actually, they can be used as modules as well (I use dos/windows as a module). 
 Be aware that on the Kernel Mailing List, NTFS write is considered a "You 
Have Been Warned" item, and while some tools are being developed to support 
recovery (and eventually write support), it's quite common (according to LKML 
members posting) for it to munge the FS.  This is especially true with NT2000, 
as apparently MS changed the format in some way.
NTFS Support Project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/

jeff

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