Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[Tim Prince <tprince@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 14 July 2002 10:38, Stuart Powell wrote:
> From what I have seen, the driver is merely for accessing an existing NTFS
> partition.  Linux doesn't use NTFS natively, since it already has a
> plethora of superior file systems to choose from.
>
> Your question isn't specific enough to know if you want to:
> a.  Create an NTFS partition from within Linux
> b.  Change an existing NTFS partition to something else that Linux can use
>
> Answers:
> a.  Not that I've ever heard of, but that doesn't mean it won't ever happen
Preferably, software to do that would accept options such as NT/2K/XP, 
NTFS4/NTFS5 (and more), and know details which might even violate Microsoft 
non-disclosure terms.  Microsoft could make NTFS a superior file system for 
inter-operation between their OS and linux; evidently they have reasons for 
not doing so.
> b.  fdisk and the like should be able to do that with no problems, but you
> would lose whatever is currently on that partition
>
> Your timing is fortuitous, as I have just made my laptop dual boot between
> W2K and SuSE8.0, with NTFS and ReiserFS respectively.  While I have no
> illusions that I will ever be able to read the ReiserFS partition from W2K,
> I am confident that I'll be able to read the NTFS partition from the Linux
> side should I choose to do so.
>
> Bye for now,
> Stuart.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tabanna [mailto:tabanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 00:38
> To: SuSE List
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Re: security hole?
>
> On Saturday 13 July 2002 11:43 pm, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > NTFS partition
>
> ______________
>
>  is there a Linux utility to Format a NTFS Partition, please ?
>
> thanks
> <snip>

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Tim Prince