dual boot with Fedora and NTFS on windows: is it safe ?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Sep 12 16:26:56 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 10:13 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

> That's a very reasonable attitude. What disturbs me about it is not
> that Linux perhaps cannot do what I want so much as it is that everyone
> at the time told me I was hallucinating, and that Linux had perfect
> read access. But I tried multiple distros on an NTFS partition, and
> all of them had problems reading that partition, which worked perfectly
> with Windows NT. The file names which got screwed up were different
> each time I tried the copy, even without changing the distro.

Did you use any with the 'captive' driver approach?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_NTFS

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  Les Mikesell
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