Re: [Sheflug] Apologies: Writing to NTFS

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:26, Darrell Blake wrote:
> > That very much depends on your mailer; mine are fine, thanks. ;)
> 
> Not always the mailer.

It is _always_ the mailer. Emails themselves are not intelligent enough
to do any damage ;)

> Well if I only had an NTFS partition how would I get the parts across?

You wouldn't, because you would be stuffed ;)

Actually, not entirely true. If you can make the file contiguous on
disk, and you could work out it's extents, you could copy it using
Windows dd. 

> And if I only had a FAT partition how would I join them together with the file
> being bigger than 2gb?

Are either of the questions relevant? I thought you had both? Obviously,
if you only had a FAT partition you would again be stuffed ;)

> > The Linux NTFS page has a list of ext2 drivers for Windows, some of
> > which claim to read/write.
> 
> What's the URL? I'd like to read up on that.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ , see the FAQ.

> Do you know if it writes to ext3 because I could be pursuaded to swap 
> from reiserfs then =o)

Not as ext3, but as ext2 defacto yes. ext3 and ext2 are compatible. You
would lose the benefit of ext3 by writing to it in ext2 mode, but it
could be done. It would mean your disk would nuke the journal every time
you restart, but hey.

Cheers,

Alex.

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