Using FC3 to share NTFS drive

[Tony Dietrich]

On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 21:10, Himanshu Goel wrote:
> I would like to share a local NTFS drive mounted in FC3 as /mnt/windows so
> it is available to a windows XP computer for read/write. Is it possible?
>
> Himanshu Goel

NTFS filesystems are not yet ready for stable use with Linux.  There is some 
development work being done at the moment, but AFAIK, only read operations 
are supported, and the developers are warning everyone that write operations 
are extremely dangerous and may make the NTFS partitions totally unusable.

Your best best for filesharing between WinXp and Linux is to create a FAT32 
partition and use that to share the data, since FAT32 support is well 
supported already in Linux for read/write/xecute access.

This applies whether you are sharing the partition locally or exporting it via 
Samba or NFS.  Its the local system that does the read/write operations, 
after all.

Sharing any partition with a WinXP computer is down through Samba.  If you do 
create a FAT32 partition for your shared data, then you need to read up on 
Samba.

If you can get the data onto a Linux partition, then you can also share that 
partition via Samba ... effectively,(but simplistically) Samba can share any 
partition that Linux can read from.  It can also write to any partition that 
Linux can write to.
-- 
Tony Dietrich
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