[ltp] pre-installation advice?

James Ryan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:21:27 -0400


No, no, not at all...
There is a reliable read/write Linux NTFS driver that I have been using
for at least six months.
It's called Captive NTFS, you can get it here:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
I've never had a problem with it.
-jr

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 16:59, Kevin Krause wrote:
> The issue is that (as far as I know) NTFS can only reliably be mounted
> Read Only, so you'd need the extra FAT32 partition. I'd consider it more
> convenient if you don't need a separate FAT32 exchange partition. If
> you're using XP much, NTFS + separate exchange partition may be more
> useful, though.
> 
> James:
> 
> > Why is NTFS an issue?  I used Partition Magic to resize and had no 
> > problems.  Also, it's a good idea to create a FAT32 partition and move 
> > the "My Documents" folder there, to make it easy to work on files from 
> > either OS.
>