Re: Linux, Vista dual boot

[Craig White <craigwhite azapple com>]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 19:54 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> Last I checked, NTFS support in the Linux kernel was, basically, read
> only...how do you share the data partition so easily?
> 
> > Jim wrote:
> >> Can Fedora Linux be setup to dual boot with Vista as easy as XP, what
> >> filesystem type does Vista use ??
> >>
> >
> > Vista uses NTFS of some description.  I have a Vista/F8 dual boot which
> > uses a shared NTFS partition for data quite happily.
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apparently the ntfs-3g package works extremely well in read/write mode
so older admonitions about read only on ntfs partitions might be
outdated.

Craig