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Re: help with Wine...



Ok, thank you for pointing that :)

Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 à 19:50 +0200, Bob Alexander a écrit :
> Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> >>Consider that if your Windows partition is an NTFS one you will most 
> >>probably (I hope) have it READ ONLY and this will cuase problems if you > try to use that partition to run your windows progs from.
> > 
> > 
> > It will be read-write with a 2.6 kernel.
> > 
> 
> Well,
> I am running a 2.6.11.7 kernel and MY NTFS is ro :)
> 
> AFAIK the r/w for NTFS only works to replace data in existing files but > these cannot grow in size and maybe cannot even be created. Am I wrong ?
> 
> The is a snippet from the first googled page:
> 
> The NTFS support in Linux-2.6 is very limited (because Microsoft doesn't > disclose the technical bits about how NTFS works). Specifically, it does > not support these operations:
> 
>      * Creating/deleting files
>      * Growing/shrinking files
> 
> It only allows writing over existing files.
> 
> Take care,
> Bob
> 
> 




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