On 22/01/11 04:08, John Perry wrote:
I've installed suse and Windows xp on my wife's new computer; she's not very confident of her ability to deal with computers, and she has to use xp for work, so she insists on her xp at home.
I find that ext2fs doesn't work any more because suse, like most (all?) other distributions has gone to 256-byte inodes rather than the original 128-byte inodes, and to get back to the old structure means backing up my entire 150G home partition and reformatting it.
FWIW there is a project ext2fsd http://www.ext2fsd.com that can read 256-byte inodes and even ext4 with extents (see comments on that page -> bo branten's patches). It's worked fine for me, but I personally trust ntfs-3g more than it.
But ntfs-3g, which ships with suse, claims to read and write to ntfs partitions, but writing is disabled by default because it's "unsafe". I've installed ntfs-config, but haven't had the courage to use it because in the course of finding out why I could no longer use ext2fs (which I've used in the past), I ran across several statements that writing under ntfs-3g could corrupt ntfs partitions, and that's why it's disabled by default. But the most recent of these statements is two years old in an ubuntu forum archive.
openSUSE mounts drives r/w, but only writeable to user root if they are an internal drive, IIRC. Just edit your /etc/fstab. ntfs-config hasn't been necessary since ~11.1?
Is ntfs-3g still risky? I'd really like to use it to put information into my xp account so when my wife preempts her computer (struggling with xen, unfortunately), and when I need engineering resources not available under linux, I don't have to juggle flashdrives and such.
I've never had a data corruption problem with ntfs-3g in the 2+ years it's been stable. A long time ago there used to be performance issues but those seem to be fixed. Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org