problems accesing windows partition

Brad Noyes maitre at ccs.neu.edu
Sat Apr 27 11:31:34 EDT 2002


This page might offer some more detial
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
i have used linux to read NTFS, i would not dare to write to an NTFS partition.


On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:58:11PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Note that Linux only supports NTFS in ReadOnly mode, and very
> poorly at that...  I would highly recommend, if you want to
> share the file system, that you revert back to FAT32.
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Michael ." <angelfly91 at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm running Mandrake 8.1 set on dual boot with Win XP Prof. and never had any problems accessing the windows partition but recently I converted it from a FAT32 to NTFS I'm pretty sure I've set up linux correctly but I can only get in as root and if I try to change the permissions it won't let meGet more from the Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
> 
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