[ltp] question for dual boot people

Michael Stilkerich linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:20:34 +0100


* Heiko Rosemann <hrosema@fkg.goe.ni.schule.de> [2004-03-06 15:09]:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Vincent Touquet wrote:
> 
> > For the people who use a Windows version and Linux
> > on their Thinpad: do you go with NTFS for Windows,
> > or do you stick with FAT32 ?
> 
> NTFS for now, since it was auto-converted during the install. I'd prefer
> FAT32, since writing to NTFS now has to be done by copying the data to my
> desktop - quite complicated way of handling it. But I guess Linux will
> contain true NTFS write support sooner or later.

Well I guess it does, look at this project
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

It uses wine to load the original ntfs windows driver and is said to
work fantasticly. Be aware, however, that I never tried this myself, as
windows only lives in the predesktop area of my thinkpad..

Mike.