Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:35:37 -0700 | From | Ben Ford <> | Subject | Re: Current status of NTFS support |
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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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