[hllug] Re: Linux support for NTFS
- From: paul <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 04:39:20 -0500
Lee Parmeter said the following on 5/20/2008 5:25 PM:
Don Crowder wrote:
paul wrote:
Don Crowder said the following on 5/20/2008 12:55 AM:
Helmut, the Dear Webby guy, is under the impression that Xandros is
the "only" Linux distro that can read and write to an NTFS partition.
That's not correct is it?
Ubuntu can.
"Out of the box" or with added software?
Since I have a FAT32 partition setup to share files between WinXP
and Ubuntu on my Dell laptop, I do not mount the NTFS partition. So, I'll
be waiting to hear from Paul as well as to whether or not it worked by
default for him.
However, I can say that according the the Ubuntu community docs, starting
with Ubuntu 7.10, NTFS volumes are supposed to be mounted read/write by
default.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions
I would bet that there are other recently released Linux distributions that
do likewise being that the NTFS-3G driver has been stable for over a year.
All of my drives/partitions, other than the 4GB "recovery drive" are NTFS.
Ubuntu can read them and write to them. Accessing is like much like
mapping to a network drive in Windows where you need a password. Why a
password is needed to use a drive in your PC is a mystery. I suppose it
all goes away when re-booting just to annoy. :)
paul
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