Oliver Vecernik wrote: > I misunderstood a statement in a forum. There seems to be no really > platform independant file system without those limitations. There is no > write support for NTFS under Linux and ext2/ext3 write support under > Windows is also not supported (at least open source). I also had a look > at FreeBSD, but the same situation with UFS2.
There is another option, captive-NTFS. It uses Microsoft's own native NTFS driver (with glue code from ReactOS and WINE) to enable full read/write support under linux. It's completely open source and free, presuming that you have windows installed on the partition and have a valid license for it. (And if you don't have windows, why do you care about NTFS?) Failing that, there is an option to download a particular service pack from microsoft.com and unpack the ntfs.sys file. This is off topic for the cygwin list, obviously. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/