[H-GEN] mounting local NTFS partitions

[Sandra Milne]

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Hi folks,

I've been asked a few times about mounting NTFS partitions under linux. 
I know it's possible, but I've always shied away from it if I could.

I'd like to hear people's opinions/experiences on mounting NTFS 
partitions under linux, either read-only or with write access. I'm 
curious as to whether it is safe as I have a couple of partitions that I 
need the 4gig barrier gone on so they've been formatted NTFS. (Video 
capture and DVD image compilation being the main reasons for this.) I 
also have a number of friends who would probably install linux if they 
could get at their windows partitions (mostly NTFS) from linux.

I may consider turning a partition or 2 back to FAT32 if mounting NTFS 
partitions is as dangerous as I've heard in the past, however I find 
that the slack space in FAT32 partitions is somewhat ludicrous on large 
partitions and there is no reliable way to mount ext2 partitions in 
windows (that I've been able to find anyway). Explore2fs is a great free 
program, however it can only allow browsing and copying of files, not a 
full mounting of the partition.

Sandra.
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