On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 9 September 2006 22:12, Daniel Waeber wrote: > > > Although she promised that when the NTFS drivers for Linux are > > > developed adequately to allow her to work on her NTFS stored data > > > from both OS, she will make an effort to migrate. Let's see . . . > > > > hey, that's now > > > > Have a look at the captive ntfs driver [1] > > They use the binary Windows drivers for ntfs and simulate the windows > > kenerl calls. Therefore it is totally save (or at least as save as the > > m$ driver ;)) > > I never tried it, becaues I have no ntfs partitions, but it sounds > > good and its already in the ports-tree. > > No need for captive anymore, ntfs-g3 is open source, is in portage and > works fine.
Fantastic! I'll have a try tomorrow and then install on her machine. Thanks for the heads up! :) -- Regards, Mick
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