Re: Dual boot Debian/Windows question
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:37:17PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> The Linux howtwo on this subject warns about directly mounting My
> Documents from Windows in Linux, and suggests creating a separate vfat
> partition to share files. Is that really necessary? What are the reasons
> (they were not mentioned in the article)?
In 2.4 and older, NTFS write support is dangerous, so you couldn't
write to an NTFS filesystem, you had to mount it read-only. Windows,
of course, is mutually incompatible with everything, so forget even
seeing non-Windows filesystems.
However, if you have a 2.6 kernel, this isn't something that you have
to worry about, you can now mount NTFS partitions read/write. I
recommend moving to 2.6 if you haven't yet.
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.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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