Re: [SLUG] Mounting NTFS Drives

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 11:25:16 EDT


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, jeff wrote:

> On Monday 18 April 2005 9:03, Jesse Broecker wrote:
> > Hi I am new to SLUG and Linux, I've been learning linux off and on for the
> > last coule months. I run a duel boot machine with Windows XP Pro and Red
> > Had Fedora Core. One of my biggest stumbling blocks is the inability to
> > acess the files on my windows drive. I've heard there is a way to mount
> > NTFS drives/partitions but haven't found anything that works so far. Can
> > anyone help?
>
> You will need to have NTFS support compiled into the kernel (if it isn't
> already). You will then have read ability for NTFS. Writing to NTFS is still
> considered risky. If you need to swap data between FC and XP, a safer method
> is to make a VFAT partition for that purpose. Both OS's can then read/write
> to that partition safely.

But _not_ at the same time, unless >1 of them goes through some network
file-sharing program to get there.

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