Re: [SLUG] moving a ntfs drive to a linux box.

From: Seth Hollen (seth@hollen.org)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 08:14:26 EST


Ive had some limited success reading NTFS partitions, but according to
everything I've heard writing to NTFS is like playing Russian roulette.
could you back up the drive first? Then try mounting it and get
everything off it fast, then reformat it.

Seth

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 21:02, patrick grantham wrote:
> I am nearly ready to turn off win box. I have, but one hold out, a drive
> with every bit (pardon the pun) of data known to my life. I am contemplating
> was to move the data. It seems easiest to me to attach the drive to the one
> of the unused IDE connectors, create a mount an away I go. I have done this
> before, but the drive was formatted FAT32. Whereas the drive I want to move
> is NTFS. I can think of no compatibly issues.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Patrick
>

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Take care,

Seth seth@hollen.org 727-919-1598



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