Re: [Sheflug] Apologies: Writing to NTFS

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:13, Darrell Blake wrote:
> Just realised it was actually text. With regards to HTML email, it may look
> better but from a security point of view it's a death trap!

That very much depends on your mailer; mine are fine, thanks. ;)

> > 20Gb FAT partition? Then why the worry about NTFS?
> 
> Because DVD images are larger than 2gb and FAT32 can't handle files larger
> than 2gb.

Ah, okay. I've obviously been without FAT for too long.

You could split files onto that drive, and then join them in Windows.
There are plenty of programs that will do that, for both OSes.

> There aren't drivers as far as I'm aware just reading programs. Like rfstool
> is used for reading reiserfs partitions. The problem is I want to be able to
> write to an NTFS partition from the Linux side.

The Linux NTFS page has a list of ext2 drivers for Windows, some of
which claim to read/write. 

Cheers,

Alex.

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