Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 May 96 16:02:24 CDT | From | <> | Subject | re: NTFS Filesystem? |
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Paolo and everyone:
I have been thinking about this for a while also. I know that Microsoft says (implicitly) that it is impossible to make a bootable diskette that has support for NTFS. (Well, they don't have any way to make it -- the drivers they use are too large.) It would be great to use one filesystem format for both operating systems. Does anyone have any information on the filesystem layout that NTFS uses?
Dan ------------- Original Text From: Paolo Pierini <pierini@mi.infn.it>, on 5/6/96 9:20 AM: To: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
A very simple question from a newcomer on this list.
I have a dual boot Linux 1.3.97 / Windows NT 3.51 installation (ok, shame on me, but please don't start a flame war asking me why should I have WNT installed on my machine :-) ) I am quite happy since NTLDR.COM behaves nicely with respect to my MBR and I can have lilo boot either linux or NT.
I would also like, however, to have access to the NTFS disk on the system. Is this possible? Or, I should say, is somebody working on that? I guess it's not a straightforward thing and not many people want it in the first place...
thanks
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