Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:35:30 +0300 (EEST) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Current status of NTFS support |
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I have installed a Win2000 and you do not have to switch to NTFS. W2000 can be installed on a FAT32 partition. I have installed it on a FAT32 partition and hasn't caused me any problems.
You might wanna give it a try.
good luck,
/me
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:
> > > Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's > still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to me > because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office laptop > is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000. Of course, I hardly ever > boot into Windows any more since installing a Linux partition last year. But > our corporate email standard forces me to use Lotus Notes, which I run under > Wine. The Notes executables and databases are installed on my Windows > partition. The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard drive, allocating > the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and reinstalling Notes after > installing Windows 2000 . That means bye-bye FAT32 partition and hello NTFS. I > can't mount it read-only because I'll still have to update my Notes databases > from Linux. So how risky is this? > > Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does anyone > know if FIPS can split a partition safely that was created under Windows > 2000/NT? It worked fine for Windows 98, but I'm a little worried about what > might happen if I try to use it on an NTFS partition. > > I'd appreciate any advice or help anyone can give me. There's just no way I can > stand going back to using anything but Linux for my daily work. > > Wayne > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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