Re: NTFS Concerns with FC2
On 7/1/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I have a multi-boot machine and need to share some files
between the Linux and Windows XP OSs. To date, I've been
either writing to floppy or burning a CD and rebooting, then
reading in. I'd like to just copy files between some shared
device, like my Windows XP partition.
I've heard that there is no problem mounting an NTFS volume
and reading it using Fedora Core 2, but that there are perhaps
problems *writing* to such a volume from FC2. Since the
direction I mostly need to go is FC2->WXP, this is of some
concern to me.
You are correct. The other problem is that you have to install a new
linux-ntfs RPM with every FC kernel update, which can be annoying:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/
One common way to get around it is to set up a FAT partition on a
drive, or part of a drive, for a transfer area. Linux has no trouble
reading/writing FAT.
Can anyone answer this question for me? And where do I go
to research this without bothering people here? New to FCx
and don't know how to do the search at redhat.com yet.
Most people find the archive at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
to be more easily searchable. Other great sources are fedorafaq.org
and fedoraforum.org.
Good luck,
Matt