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On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 08:35, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Jonathan Ng wrote:
>Can I access a Windows NTFS partition? If I can't, how
>do I read files from my NTFS partition? Do I need to
>transfer all of them (2-3GB) to another FAT32 partition?
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NTFS support is not built into the FC2 stock kernel. You can use the
RPMs from the URL below:
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<A HREF="http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora2.html"><U>http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora2.html</U></A>
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to install a loadable module that will give you NTFS read access. You
will then need to put an entry in your /etc/fstab file to make sure it
gets mounted on startup. Here's an example from my fstab file for
mounting my Windows XP root partition (/dev/hdc1):
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows/C ntfs
ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
If you want write support for NTFS, take a look at
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<A HREF="http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/"><U>http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/</U></A>
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although I would shy away from writing to NTFS partitions - it's been
known to be a bit flaky.
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Hi,<BR>
I found these drawbacks of captive during its occasional use:<BR>
- can't access large files (>1GB)<BR>
- very slow (about floppy speed)<BR>
- eats up the memory, for some reason it doesn't free up space occupied by the cache<BR>
- it's a pain to get the necessary M$ driver files<BR>
- I usually have to manually unmount captive-ntfs file systems in order for the last writes to take affect<BR>
(Some other observations can be found here: <A HREF="http://www.jankratochvil.net/pipermail/captive-list/">http://www.jankratochvil.net/pipermail/captive-list/</A> )<BR>
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But captive is good for:<BR>
- editing/creating/deleting/renaming small files<BR>
- modifying/deleting files which are otherwise unaccessible from Windows (which were created by other versions/installations of Windows)<BR>
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linux-ntfs is a complementer for captive:<BR>
- fast<BR>
- can access files of any size (but only for reading)<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Botond<BR>
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