[H-GEN] mounting local NTFS partitions

[Stuart Longland]

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Sandra Milne wrote:

> 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've had no trouble with reading from NTFS, and generally on my main box 
(which runs Win2K Pro SP4, Linux From Scratch, Gentoo Linux 1.4 and 
Syllable), I normally have my Windows 2000 partition mounted.  My kernel 
has write support disabled.

I haven't dared to run a kernel with NTFS write support enabled, 
although I've heard it on the grapevine that the biggest problems at the 
moment are with file permissions on the NTFS volume.  Apparently Linux 
messes these up.
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