On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:56 , 'Martin A. Brooks' <martin@hinterlands.org> sent:

>Russell Howe wrote:
>> Please note that if your Windows filesystems are NTFS, you really don't
>> want Linux to be able to write to them...
>
>
>This is less true these days, though I would still recommend against it.
>
>NTFS writing has come along leaps and bounds recently.

Not so much "Avoid it like the plague" as "Avoid it like the Flu"?

There is a commercial driver you can buy that has wonderful support for NTFS and there is also support for loading the windows NTFS driver under linux and using that.  I would not do it with a system that I thought was critical, but it does work.

I recently managed to kill my Win2k install so I booted into Linux, mounted my NTFS partition and copied everything into a backup directory on my linux partition.  Then booted off the Win2K Install CD, repartitioned and formatted my first hard drive (dedicated to Windows) and then re-installed Win2K.  Created a 2nd and 3rd partition as Fat32, booted back in to Linux, mounted the Fat32 partitions and copied the backup to them.  Instantly accessible via windows on a reboot with no data loss.

Andy


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