Re: [LUG] Sony Lagdog, etc

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > On a different point, I'm trying to mount a win2k ntfs partion, but I can
> > only mount it read only. Is this a limitation of this type of filesystem,
> > or is there any way around this ?
>
> I believe 2.4 kernels only allow read access to NTFS, but I've heard
> from other sources that 2.6 kernels should be able to read/write.  I
> admit I've not had the bottle to try it though :)  Too much data to lose
> if I kill the partition.

Write access was possible on 2.4 but you needed to enable it and build a 
custom kernel (i think the same applied for 2.6). Even the option to enable 
it said "DANGEROUS and EXPERIMENTAL", however and I think the caution still 
remains. I believe that support for NTFS 4.0 was fairly complete but 
everthing new will be using NTFS5.0. I wouldn't try it if the partition 
matters!. If you need to share data either make a small FAT32 partition to 
use as a share or there are EXT2 drivers for win32 but they are commercial 
and about £30 if i recall. 

Robin

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