[neos1]

I cannot remember where I read about work being done to allow Linux to run on the NTFS file system. I'm wondering if there has been any progress?

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by neos1

I cannot remember where I read about work being done to allow Linux to run on the NTFS file system. I'm wondering if there has been any progress?

Hi neos1,

It is likely that you read about a Linux driver to allow mounting, reading and writing of an XP file system aka NTFS. Windows running on NTFS has no interest whatsoever for Microsoft to develop compatibility with Linux filesystems.

You can read a previous response I made here (see post #2) to learn more about the level of the Linux kernel necessary to be able to read and write an NTFS mounted filesystem onto a Linux ext3 filesystem.

-- Tom

[saikee]

Or download Slax 6.0.0.

It will mount all NTFS partitions and you can do drag and drop in desktop any file in a NTFS partition just like a EXt2/3 partition. The fact it is a NTFS partition is completely transparent to a user.

Others distros are still using ntfs-3g which may need installation and mounting the ntfs partitions manually before writing can be done.