su, 2008-03-30 kello 17:01 -0700, Craig White kirjoitti: > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 19:54 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > > Last I checked, NTFS support in the Linux kernel was, basically, read > > only...how do you share the data partition so easily? > > > > > Jim wrote: > > >> Can Fedora Linux be setup to dual boot with Vista as easy as XP, what > > >> filesystem type does Vista use ?? > > >> > > > > > > Vista uses NTFS of some description. I have a Vista/F8 dual boot which > > > uses a shared NTFS partition for data quite happily. > ---- > apparently the ntfs-3g package works extremely well in read/write mode > so older admonitions about read only on ntfs partitions might be > outdated. > I'd agree with Craig. When I switched from F7 to F8 in December, I wrote all 6+ Gb of my /home directory from F7 to my XP partition, and after clean install of F8 wrote everything back to it. It took about 25 minutes either way, and I haven't noticed anything odd so far - meaning my /home directory. ntfs-3g just works(tm)... Antti
