Re: partition magic, NTFS and XP

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Keith Dear wrote:
> I bought PM7.0 specifically to convert my C: from NTFS to FAT32 in order 
> to get RW access from redhat.  PM refuses to do this, saying that the 
> partition contains compressed or spares files.  Does anyone know how I 
> get rid of these? (WinXP is no more helpful about it than you might 
> expect - as far as I can see there's no way to search for files with 
> these attributes and no way to switch them off globally).
>
> (I got no response to this from the Powerquest site - this list seems 
> more responsive. If anyone from there is reading this -- it would be 
> REALLY helpful if PM identified the offending files!)

Well, there IS NTFS support in linux, but the write capability is
still listed as "experimental".  I know of a number of people who
have used it without problems, but caveat emptor.

I can't recall if RH distributes the module or not (I think not), so
you'll need to build it yourself from the kernel source RPM.
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