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 -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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