On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:12, Brian wrote:
> 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?
>
> 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.
That's right, NTFS support is read-only.
I was in the same situation you are right now four months ago. Right now
I rarely use XP (only when I need to login to some clients Windows
domain or to open old Access files). My setup is as follow:
1.- A 10 GB NTFS for XP.
2.- A 1 GB FAT32 partition.
3.- A 256MB ext3 partition for /boot.
4.- A ~18 GB Reiser partition for /
5.- A 640 MB swap partition.
Winblows don't support any Linux file system. So put Winblows partitions
first because it will stop reading the partition table when it encounter
the first partition it doesn't understand.
The FAT32 partition is for saving files or directory I want to share
between Mandrake and XP.
If you are going to use MySQL, I recommend you to set it up in Linux.
Performance difference is huge. I have a database creation sql script
that takes 22 seconds in XP and 1.1 second in Mandrake. Same machine.
NTFS in XP and Reiser in Mandrake. mysql 4.0.11a. There is no error: 22
without period and 1.1. Just amazing. (I can send you the script off
list if you don't believe it).
Finally, if you want to use both OS at the same time, try VMware. You
can download a one month trial version at www.vmware.com. I case you
decide to use VMware you don't need any FAT32 partition. Share a drive
or directory in XP and connect to it using Samba. This way you will have
full access to NTFS.
HTH.
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