converting NTFS drive

Efthym efthym at gmx.net
Thu Sep 8 08:00:37 UTC 2005


> BB Cao wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>> My machine is Win2K+FC4 and I have a second physical
>> drive mounted. On it, there are 3 partitions,
>> NTFS+NTFS+EXT3. I'd like to convert NTFS to what can
>> be accessed both by Win2K and FC4. How could I do
>> that? Do I need backup all the files on NTFS without
>> worry about on EXT3? Thanks!
>>
>
> The only common filesystem between Linux and W2K is FAT32.  There are
> NTFS modules for Linux, but I'd onlu use them for READING the NTFS
> partitions.  Writing NTFS from Linux is problematic at best.
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I thought that NTFS write support exited the "dangerous" phase and is  
considered "stable". Haven't tried it myself though.




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