NTFS Disks?
Knute Johnson
knute at frazmtn.com
Sun Jul 29 18:20:20 UTC 2007
Thanks very much Charles.
knute...
>On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:14:54AM -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> I saw a package get updated the other day, ntfs-3g. I went to their
>> website to check it out. They had procedures there for mounting NTFS
>> partitions. I haven't payed any attention to NTFS in quite a while but
>> the last thing I remember was that it wasn't safe to write to NTFS
>> partitions from Linux. Is that still true?
>
>See "What currently exists (in the kernel driver)" at
>http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=status. In short, the
>developers think it's safe to write, for most purposes, but are
>reluctant to come out an say so. However, note that that page is
>labeled, "Last modified: 2006/06/02 14:18 by yuval", i.e. things may
>have changed in the last year (or year and a half?).
>
>> Is this ntfs-3g driver safe to use on my Winblows XP partition?
>
>For reading, yes. For writing, probably. Most of the time. Again, see
>http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=status.
>
>Understand that all of this has been written with no help from
>Microsoft, especially no documentation. Also, NTFS is evolving,
>e.g. there were major changes from the NFTS that came with NT 3.51 and
>that which came with NT 4 (Windows 2000). So I wouldn't try writing to
>a Vista partition until the developers say they think it's safe.
>
>> Should my NTFS partitions automount? How do I make it work when my
>> computer starts up?
>
>In /etc/fstab, e.g.:
>
>/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
>
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