[PLUG] NTFS Support?

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Nov 15 20:53:38 UTC 2006


On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, someone wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 18:11 -0800, Charlie Schluting wrote:
>> On 11/3/06 5:03 PM, Pomeroy Lab wrote:
>>> I've been studdying Knoppix, Fedora core 6 and other linux installations and I just can't figure out how to get NTFS support. Nothing lets me have RW access to the partitions. According to the output in the terminal I should not even be able to have RW permission to the root of the Fedora install partition when I am logged into Root in the terminal. It does not give the same options as FC5. But in any case this is not an advantage to me because no matter what kind of Linux I use I can't open and change files in NTFS. I can open them with Knoppix but thats where it ends.
>>>
>>
>> Did you even google it?
>>
>> Apparently you can right-click the NTFS partition ("drive") and select
>> the r/w option.
>>
>> Or `mount -o remount,rw /mountpoint` might work?
>>
>>  -Charlie
>
> Why can ext2/ext3 filesystems occupy larger partitions than FAT
> filesystems can?  I'm suspicious of NTFS even on Windows 2000/XP.
> I question how NTFS is supposedly an improvement over FAT where
> I'm even more concerned that the tools Microsoft puts out
> developed originally for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 filesystems aren't
> suited to NTFS.  I wish Microsoft was a company that respects
> the GPL.  I'd love to see Microsoft throw out all of it's
> proprietary filesystems in exchange for better OSS replacements.
> For those working on ReactOS, I think installing to an ext3
> instead of an NTFS filesystem is where the focus should be.  Is
> there a project to allow for installation of a MS Windows system
> to a free modern filesystem that Linux can handle well?

The reason for read-only on NTFS is that is is a reverse engineered file 
system.  It varies in slight ways from version to version and is not 
considered to be a well enough known quantity to write to safely yet.

Not to mention the possible patent problems with it...

> Does Vista even allow for installation to a FAT32 filesystem?

I doubt it.  FAT32 is an evil hack to begin with. Long file name support 
in FAT32 even more so.

> BTW:
> Is there a trick to get XP to activate on second and third
> installations, hard drives do wear out after all?  Microsoft
> will undoubtedly want everyone who still uses Windows to
> buy Vista soon enough, but I'm not interested.  I am hopeful
> about the ReactOS project, but I'm still not certain if it
> will ever become a complete drop in substitute for XP.  Why
> isn't there a free Windows clone around that's comparable to
> at least Windows 2000 which Microsoft is trying to drop
> support for now?

Because they want you to spend money on Vista.

What part of "forced upgrade" do you not understand?

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