On Monday 10 March 2003 02:12 pm, Brian wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title></title> > </head> > <body> > So if I understand this correctly, then the NTFS support in Mandrake 9.0 > is read-only? 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?<br> > <br> > I would like the users home directory, i.e. - "/home/userid" to be on a > partition that is readable from both Linux and Windows. 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.<br> > <br> > Thanks for the help,<br> > Brian<br> > <br> > John Richard Smith wrote: > <blockquote type="cite" cite="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > <blockquote type="cite"></blockquote> > Mandrake will not write to an ntfs partition. you need fat32.<br> > When you talk about homedrive, do you mean /home partition,<br> > because windblows will not use it. All your linux partitions<br> > need to be formatted in one of the many linux file systems.<br> > The basic linux setup is , /swap partition, /root(base) partition,<br> > In addition you can have /boot partition, /home partition, and<br> > many others. In linux /swap is the equivelant of windblows<br> > virtual memory,which is a file with preset limits,whereas in<br> > linux it's a partition.<br> > <br> > I know nothing of your hardware situation, cannot comment.<br> > <br> > John<br> > <pre wrap=""> > <hr width="90%" size="4"> > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" > href="http://www.mandrakestore.com";>http://www.mandrakestore.com</a> </pre> > </blockquote> > </body> > </html>
First, please do not post html to the list, most of the people on this list do not read it. I filter it too, but I noticed that I had an unread mail in my trash and I decided to check out what it was. Second, the best thing to do would seem to me to create a link in the home directory to a fat32 partition that has folders for each user. Because the home directory has files that require specific permissions, I would not recommend using a filesyatem that does not support Linux permissions. These files I speak of are mostly config files, so they should not need to be accessed from Windows. Why are you so insistant on ntfs? The security aspects get blown out the door by installing Linux, so I cannot imagine that the speed is that much better to make it a requirement. -- Greg
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