Eben King wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, themadtux wrote:
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>>Guys .. is it safe to give write access to an NTFS partition in fstab? Do I
>>have to worry about any corruption of the partition or files?
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>Writing to NTFS under kernel 2.4 is very dangerous; but the NTFS code has
>been completely rewritten in 2.6, and it's safe (if slow) there. Check
>here: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2
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If you must have 100% compatibility, you can always use your ntfs.sys
driver with the "captive" project:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
It uses WINE to talk to the native Windows NTFS driver.
Enjoy,
- Ian
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