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SubjectRe: Current status of NTFS support
Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:

>
>Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
>still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to me
>because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office laptop
>is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000. Of course, I hardly ever
>boot into Windows any more since installing a Linux partition last year. But
>our corporate email standard forces me to use Lotus Notes, which I run under
>Wine. The Notes executables and databases are installed on my Windows
>partition. The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard drive, allocating
>the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and reinstalling Notes after
>installing Windows 2000 . That means bye-bye FAT32 partition and hello NTFS. I
>can't mount it read-only because I'll still have to update my Notes databases
>from Linux. So how risky is this?
>
>Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does anyone
>know if FIPS can split a partition safely that was created under Windows
>2000/NT? It worked fine for Windows 98, but I'm a little worried about what
>might happen if I try to use it on an NTFS partition.
>
>I'd appreciate any advice or help anyone can give me. There's just no way I can
>stand going back to using anything but Linux for my daily work.
>

Why not just use FAT? Windows2k supports it . . .

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