Does anyone here have experience, good or bad, with the reliability of Captive, Jan Kratochvil's software providing full access to partitions formatted with the Windows NTFS filesystem? Read-only access to NTFS partitions via Linux is pretty standard now, but reliable write access is a different story. Here's the worrisome part (from Jan's webpage): Captive was written to interface with the Linux kernel via LUFS. Unfortunately, this project is no longer being maintained by its author. Mounting of NTFS devices usually works, but is no longer supported by the author of Captive. Always unmount the device by umount(8) command before shutting down your GNU/Linux system. A port of Captive to the newer FUSE interface has not yet been implemented. There is an experimental LUFS-FUSE bridge called lufis that can be used in the meanwhile. Also, the captive-cmdline(1) interface will get around any kernel compatibility problems. An amusing sidelight on this question: what led me to investigate this was having my Win 2K Pro system, in a different partition on my LInux machine, get stung by corrupted hives. The Win2K boot disk couldn't see the partition; in fact it couldn't see anything on the hard drive at all. So the best way to do the necessary repair seems to be to access the filesystem through Linux. The whole story is an example of Microsoft software engineering at its crappy finest, even including a critical error message, not a short one, that appears on a blue screen for about two seconds and then vanishes because the machine is rebooting. To get the text of it one has to reboot Windows about six times. Paul