-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:37:17PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > The Linux howtwo on this subject warns about directly mounting My > Documents from Windows in Linux, and suggests creating a separate vfat > partition to share files. Is that really necessary? What are the reasons > (they were not mentioned in the article)?
In 2.4 and older, NTFS write support is dangerous, so you couldn't write to an NTFS filesystem, you had to mount it read-only. Windows, of course, is mutually incompatible with everything, so forget even seeing non-Windows filesystems. However, if you have a 2.6 kernel, this isn't something that you have to worry about, you can now mount NTFS partitions read/write. I recommend moving to 2.6 if you haven't yet. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://ursine.ca/ `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAOVtDUzgNqloQMwcRAmylAKC5eszD3ZwvsvTmr0+yuUg+pMnS6gCfdMgW BXxGfis6ODxYDUHSenVaNL4= =mafF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
