[Gllug] Formatting FAT32, or writing to NTFS?

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Wed Sep 25 10:40:15 UTC 2002


>EEEK! Don't use the RW support for NTFS (at least in 2.2 - 2.4 kernels anyway)
>because it SERIOUSLY hosed the filesystem when I tried to use it a while back 
>(see thread from April or May or so)

The real problem is when you try and use it on a W2K NTFS filesystem. If it's
an NT4 NTFS filesystem, then you'll probably be OK. FWIW, NT4 will corrupt
a W2K NTFS fielsystem just as badly as Linux...

Tet

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