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NTFS Read/Write via Linux
Authored by: Xystance on Nov 05, '03 07:25:44PM

Linux -does- have partial write support for NTFS.

It's the journaling that the linux hackers haven't been able to get down. What happens is, you need to create a file on your NTFS partition. That file becomes a virtual disk image (readable/writable in windows and in Linux). Linux can then write to THAT file without breaking anything in NTFS. That is stable.

In fact, there's a distribution that coexists with windows since it does everything in a single file. (Forget which distro does that at the moment)

Now, writing full in NTFS is still experimental, and you need to run chkdsk after every boot... :) Data loss is possible here.

Paragon is the company that wrote the NTFS-Linux full support driver.



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NTFS Read/Write via Linux
Authored by: rae on Nov 06, '03 11:09:27AM

Hm, could you then layer a RAM disk on top of an NTFS partition using "mount -union"? Hmmm...



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