thanks for all the info,but I think Faeren's got a solution for me.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 30, 2007 5:22 PM, David Pembrook <<a href="mailto:david@pembrook.net">david@pembrook.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Benjamin Eavey wrote:<br>>> As I see it you'll need a fat32 partition that can be used safely by<br>>> either operating system for data. Linux currently doesn't safely write
<br>>> to NTFS partitions.<br>>><br>><br>> It doesn't? My dual-boot Gutsy install mounts my NTFS partition<br>> read/write by default, and I haven't had any problems yet. Granted, I<br>> don't write to it very often, but I have the ability to.
<br>><br>> -Ben<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug" target="_blank">
http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug</a><br>><br><br></div></div>further reading contradicts me further LOL.. while the kernel driver<br>isn't safe for writing.. ntfsmount apparently is reliable read/write.
<br><br><a href="http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount" target="_blank">http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount</a><br><br>All things change in time I guess.<br><br>Dave<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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