XP and Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:16:31AM -0400, John Wildberger wrote:
> I have XP and Linux (Mdk10) on my IBM ThinkPad. I can mount  the XP drives on 
> Linux and read the files. The XP is configured to share the files on the 
> network. The /etc/fstab is set for the XPdriveC as rw.
> Is there a way to write files from Linux to XP ? From all the experimenting I 
> did so far I concluded that it cannot be done. Am I wrong??

NTFS write support is not very safe to the filesystem in Linux.  hence
it is disabled by default.  NTFS specifications are not public, so
implementing it correctly is guesswork, which is never a good idea for
filesystem drivers.

To share data between Windows and Linux on one PC, create a data
partition using FAT32 and everything will be happy.

There is a set of ntfsprogs for linux that can resize, repair, and such
NTFS, which even says that it is recomended to use the ntfs fsck in
includes after unmounting NTFS r/w in linux, before using it with
windows again.  I guess that is some indicatio of how reliable the Linux
NTFS write access is considered to be.  I stick to the FAT32 data
sharing partition, I won't try writing to NTFS from Linux, except in
cases of trying to repair a broken windows install.

Lennart Sorensen
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