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    SubjectRe: Current status of NTFS support
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    > 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?

    I would not recommend enabling NTFS write support for the moment...
    Why don't you install Windows 2000 on a FAT32 partition (choose FAT32 during
    installation)?
    It's no problem running Win2k on a FAT32 partition if you don't need NTFS
    ACLs.

    >
    > 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.
    This will not work AFAIK
    >
    > 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.
    >
    > Wayne
    >

    Regards,
    Robert
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