Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Wed, 26 Feb: > Actually, is there ANY way I can access WinXP partition from Linux (on > a dual-boot machine)?
yes, install it on fat32 or be satisfied with read-only. the Linux driver for NTFS is very problematic and unstable. to truely write to an NTFS system you need to do a lot of trickery to make the NT kernel later think you did it "the legal way" via the journal (which the linux kernel doesn't), which involves running an FS fixer app after every major update to the NTFS, etc. big headache. in addition, there's a bug in theNTFS writing code that sometimes crashes the linux kernel, and looks like nobody is working on a fix. finally, the XP's FS uses compression in ways the linux driver may not be compatible with yet. -- Legend in his own mind Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
