On Monday 10 March 2003 08:12 pm, Brian wrote: Brian, please do not send to the list in html. It's a waste of bandwidth and some people may be very pissed off. Then, to your questions :
> So if I understand this correctly, then the NTFS support > in Mandrake 9.0 is read-only? Yes, but rumours tell that Mandrake 9.1 will do the job. >I did just try to > write to an NTFS partition on my test computer and it did > not work. In that case, is there any third party > drivers or utilities that will allow you to write to an > NTFS partition from Linux? Same as above. > I would like the users home directory, i.e. - > "/home/userid" to be on a partition that is readable from > both Linux and Windows. In that case you must create your /home directory as a FAT32 partition (which is a very bad idea indeed - no security at all) and - furthermore - make it the first partition after the Windows - partitions, as Windows is unable to *see* beyond any non-windows filesystem. >I saw in userdrake that you > can redirect the home directory. Can it be > redirected to a FAT partition from userdrake or does it > have to be on a linux FS? Of course I would prefer > something that is a little more secure, but I can > probably deal with FAT32 if need be. Same as above. But a lot of people make a separate FAT32 partition between Windows and Linux. That way you can read and write to this partition from both worlds. And so can other users on your Linux-box. That's why You can keep your private stuff private on a linux-partion. If you want to, make a script or a cron-job that regularly copies your files - or some of them - to the FAT32 partition so you can use them from Windows as well. > Thanks for the help, > Brian HTH and Good luck Kaj haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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