On Tuesday 23 November 2004 01:08, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Jerry Westrick [11-22-04 19:03]:

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I noticed that SUSE 9.2 now can mount my NTFS partitions, Is this still beta software? should i mount RO?

Anybody know the status of this? Anybody had expirience with it?

I believe that I have seen written here that only *read* is supported. What does fstab show you, read/write or read only?

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Well I sure hope it's ro, since I selected "read only" in the yast advanced options 8-)... If I set it to RW, what are the chances of corrupting my NTFS? THe is no data to be lost, but... On this laptop I only got recovery cd's and they will wipe out my linux also, so it would be a major pain if the NTFS got corrupted... Is the NTFS files system out of BETA? Jerry

Jerry Westrick wrote:

Well I sure hope it's ro, since I selected "read only" in the yast advanced options 8-)...

It is, not just because of the settings but because of the kernel module it uses.

If I set it to RW, what are the chances of corrupting my NTFS?

AFAIK, none. It is a kernel module, and I have never seen the write enabled in a SuSE kernel. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:56, Anders Johansson wrote:

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt calls write support "very limited, but safe", implying it is there and it won't destroy your data, but you won't get all the features of an ntfs file system.

I suggest you have a look at the following package. Captive: The first free NTFS read/write filesystem for GNU/Linux http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Apparently there are RPM's for SuSE 9.0 & 9.1 -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------