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Ardax · 01-25-2002, 01:41 PM

There's NTFS kernel drivers and tools available for linux here. I don't know if it's really a very closed format or if writing file system drivers is just really f'n difficult. I think that there's docs on MSDN detailing the various versions of the NTFS filesystem, but they may not be terribly useful.

They work. I use them at home. I've never tried mounting them read/write, because that apparently isn't done yet. You are strongly advised to run ntfsck after mounting an NTFS part r/w. I don't want my filesystems hosed. Someone else can do that.

verbatim, I've also noticed that 2k doesn't really play real nice with fat32 either. Or, it doesn't degrade nicely if anything crashes. Keep a 98 bootdisk handy with scandisk (or norton disk doctor) on it, you'll want to use it occasionally.

01-25-2002, 01:41 PM	#16
Ardax Irrelevant Adulterant Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 43	There's NTFS kernel drivers and tools available for linux here. I don't know if it's really a very closed format or if writing file system drivers is just really f'n difficult. I think that there's docs on MSDN detailing the various versions of the NTFS filesystem, but they may not be terribly useful. They work. I use them at home. I've never tried mounting them read/write, because that apparently isn't done yet. You are strongly advised to run ntfsck after mounting an NTFS part r/w. I don't want my filesystems hosed. Someone else can do that. verbatim, I've also noticed that 2k doesn't really play real nice with fat32 either. Or, it doesn't degrade nicely if anything crashes. Keep a 98 bootdisk handy with scandisk (or norton disk doctor) on it, you'll want to use it occasionally.