Guest seven212 Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 I have mandrake an an ext3 partition and windows on an NTFS partition. I read somewhere that you shouldn't write anything from linux to my NTFS partition. Is it ok to copy files from the NTFS partition to my linux partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 yes. that should be ok. i do it quite frequently, and have never had a problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 Yep the Linux NTFS driver works fine for reading (and copying from) NTFS. Its just writing to them that causes problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 Your other alternative, assuming you really want read/write access to and from windows is to reinstall windows as a fat32 partition. Linux doesn't have any issues with fat32.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 What I did was install windows on NTFS so that I couldn't accidentally screw it up while in linux (4 gig NTFS partition) then I made a 27.5 gig fat32 partition called share that they both can write to. 4 gigs for linux, and another 4.5 for screwing around with other distributions and BSDs et cetera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 PS Best thing I ever did too. Couldn't be happier. All me games are installed only once but playable in both - in /home/static AND in MY Documents I have links to /share/music (or F:[share]music if you prefer) where I keep all my mp3's, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted November 7, 2002 Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 That's a good way to go. The NTFS partition can be minimum size (even minus swap) and the share can be destroyed or whatnot without ruining your installation of NT. I do the same, but also have the second drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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