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@aig.forthnet.gr] 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@eternal.net wrote:
NTFS partition
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is there a Linux utility to Format a NTFS Partition, please ?
thanks <snip>
-- Tim Prince