Re: ntfs mount errors

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:52:17AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> I also read that if you mount
>>> windows xp as vfat you can write to it. Even more sceptical.
>>
>> What do you mean by that? You can safely mount fat partitions for a long
>> time now.
>
> Yup, been there, done that, it works fine. It has consequences for the XP
> side, though -- VFAT doesn't support alternate data streams or file
> permissions, so you lose some functionality. Those features are mostly
> only useful if you have multiple users on one machine, though.
>
> Note that you have to install XP from the start on a FAT partition --
> Microsoft has tools to let you convert FAT to NTFS, but there's no way to
> go back without reformatting.
>
> A good alternative I've sometimes used is to create a second, FAT-formatted
> partition and use it for stuff I want to access from both operating
> systems.

Unless you forget to copy the important stuff and have to reboot...

Recently I've been experimenting with ext2fsd (which despite its name can also read ext3) and ntfs-3g.

Regards,
Andrei

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