Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

[Kristian Niemi <rance@mbnet.fi>]

Question #1 is something I'm pondering on myself; I just assumed it's me 
being stupid, although I have the same settings for my NTFS partition, 
as another ext2 ...

Question #2, in kernel 2.6 I believe you can set NTFS as writable, 
although it's experimental, and at least I don't dare to use it. ;)

Question #3, perhaps by some external tools (software, that is), but I 
don't know any offhand --- if there even are any.

The way I solve exchange of files between XP and Linux, is that I have a 
FAT-partition, which is (easily) mountable, readable and writable, by 
both Windows and Linux ...


h: Kristian


Andrus Moor wrote:
> I have dual booting system:  XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with ext2 file
> systems.
> This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are not
> available usually.
>
> 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ?
>
> I added a line to /etc/fstab :
>
> /dev/hda1  /xp ntfs  users,uid=andrus,exec,rw,suid,umark=0777
>
> Unfortunately, only root can access to xp directory.
> User andrus does not have access to /xp directory. Why ?
>
> 2. How to write to NTFS partition from Linux ?
>
> The fstab line above mounts /xp as read only !
>
> 3. How to read and write ext2 partition from Windows XP ?