XP and Linux

[daniel]

On September 8, 2004 11:16 am, 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??
> John

from the kernel help for version 2.4.27-gentoo-r1:

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This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.

The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing 
the file length.  No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is 
possible.  Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find 
that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot be written to.

While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have so far not 
received a single report where the driver would have damaged someones data so 
we assume it is perfectly safe to use.

Note:  While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from scratch of 
the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS write support, is not 
safe.

This is currently useful with TopologiLinux.  TopologiLinux is run on top of 
any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your hard disk.  Unlike 
other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not need its own partition.  For 
more information see <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>

It is perfectly safe to say N here.

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now note that this is version 2.4.27-gentoo-r1, i distinctly remember dire 
warnings resembling "use this only if you want to corrupt your data" for 
previous incarnations of the kernel, so use at your own risk.

as an alternative, a fat partition works for many.  i use a separate 
fileserver that runs samba, nfs, and netatalk so windows, linux, and mac 
boxes can all get at the same files.  it just depends on your network.


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