[H-GEN] Mounting Windows XP?

[Robert Kearey]

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theticus at excite.com wrote:

> I think I need to compile NTFS support into the kernel...

Don't even *think* about mounting NTFS volumes under Linux - even read 
only access can cause major filesystem corruption that the Windows fsck 
tools refuse to fix.

Just Don't Do It. I'm not kidding here.

For this, you can blame Microsoft and their endearing habit of changing 
specs without appropriate documentation.

> Theticus

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