Andrew Morgan wrote: > C A Wills wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I have just bought a Maxtor Basic 250Gb external HD for storing my >> wife's photo's. It is formated as NTFS and I'd like to format FAT32 (so >> I can see, read/write, the files on both Linux and XP machines). >> >> > > Linux can read and write NTFS these days, can it not? > Well, it can, I've done it. :) > > Has anyone here had any good or bad experiences with NTFS on a recent > Linux system? I haven't used it extensively but had no problems when I > did use it. > > I've not had any problems with it. The only issue is having to boot into Windows to chkdsk (aka. fsck) it as no Linux tool exists.
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