kurtjo Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 I read somewhere that SUSE 9.0 will support WRITING to NTFS safely. Does anyone know if this is true and if Mandrake 9.2 will be able to also? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 AKAIK the Linux NTFS drivers are still not good enough for you to 'safely' write to a partition. Its not helped by the fact that MS occasionally change the NTFS spec to suit their own purposes. But Mandrake can reliably resize and create NTFS partions, I guess SuSE (and the others) can do as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtjo Posted October 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 Thanks for the input, mtweidmann. I am trying to put together a plan for sharing files between linux and XP. Sure would be a lot easier if M$ would recognize other partition types and make NTFS public! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 I have a FAT32 partition just for sharing data between Windows and Linux. It works fine for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Currently I have on my work laptop winxp & suse9, I put all my mp3's on win and listen to them through suse9. That's only reading, but you can write to it, but as was mentioned, "safelty" I don't think you can really say that. I have never had a problem writing from SuSE, but your mileage may very. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtjo Posted October 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 Yep, I agree with the FAT32 approach for storing mpg's and such, even though I've learned not to trust FAT partitions, it's only data that can be backed up elsewhere easily enough. I'm still too chicken to write to the NTFS partitions where my Win OS is. If I screw up win I would be REALLY PO'd cause I hate working with it anyway. Thanks for the suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 create an image of the ntfs partition with partimage then if you messed up you can just overwrite it from the image. according to partimage, ntfs imaging is still experimental but i have done it without any problems. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 SuSE 9.0 can RESIZE NTFS partitions as part of the install process. WRITING to them is still a problem... You CAN use Partition Magic to switch your NTFS partitions over to FAT32, I think. That may be a better solution if you want the ability to safely edit Windoze drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 can also resize NTFS. Worked fine when I used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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