Partition Converting Question

[Paul Howarth]

M.Rudra wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:30:47 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>NTFS is more rebust than FAT and recovers better from crashes.
>>If you have a screwed up FAT32 partition you'd be best off using a
>>Windows disk repair tool to try to fix it.
> 
> 
> I did try using a repair tool but that did not work, so i presume it
> was a virus (just guessing)  and used the alternative longer method,
> but now we are slowly trying to reduce the dependence on M$. btw, does
> ntfs patch provide support to all distros ?

See the linux-ntfs website (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/) for 
details. There *should* be a way of getting the ntfs module working in 
all distros, since all it is is a kernel module.

Paul.