Adding a new drive

[Rajinder Yadav]

Hi Christopher,

I just want to mount a ntfs system to see what data is on the drive and if it's OK to reformat. The box I have use to be a WinXP box. 

For the CentOS server I am setting up, I will continue to use ext3.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Mon, 6/15/09, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Adding a new drive
> To: tlug at ss.org
> Received: Monday, June 15, 2009, 12:12 AM
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM,
> Dave Germiquet<davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > Just a point taken someone may pipe up, I haven't used
> NTFS On linux
> > that much and last time I heard it wasn't widely done
> for write
> > purposes..Maybe someone can shed more insight if its
> more stable, and
> > can use it with write/read on linux systems.
> 
> The purpose of it is to support Windows interoperability;
> if that's
> not particularly needful, I would certainly not bother.
> 
> I'd primarily consider, for Linux-based filesystems, ext3,
> and perhaps XFS/JFS.
> 
> Reiserfs would not be high on my list; with the
> incarceration of the
> author, ongoing maintenance could be problematic, to say
> the least!
> 
> I'm very interested in what's happening with (ext4, nilfs,
> ocfs2), but
> all of those are a bit too new to be considered stable just
> yet.
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