converting NTFS drive

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Sep 7 17:25:37 UTC 2005


BB Cao wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> My machine is Win2K+FC4 and I have a second physical
> drive mounted. On it, there are 3 partitions,
> NTFS+NTFS+EXT3. I'd like to convert NTFS to what can
> be accessed both by Win2K and FC4. How could I do
> that? Do I need backup all the files on NTFS without
> worry about on EXT3? Thanks!

The only common filesystem between Linux and W2K is FAT32.  There are
NTFS modules for Linux, but I'd onlu use them for READING the NTFS
partitions.  Writing NTFS from Linux is problematic at best.
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