Another thing that might be of interest to people is that XP uses NTFS
5.1, whilst windows2000 uses NTFS 5.0. The problem here is that if people are
ghosting partitions, then only ghost 7.5 Corporate and upwards will properly
ghost XP (NTFS 5.1), Any version lower will only do NTFS
5.0.
One
way round it for us is to install XP on fat32, create the ghost image and then
convert from fat32 to NTFS.
-----Original Message-----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?
From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 March 2003 7:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot
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.
Thanks for the help,
Brian
John Richard Smith wrote:Mandrake will not write to an ntfs partition. you need fat32.
When you talk about homedrive, do you mean /home partition,
because windblows will not use it. All your linux partitions
need to be formatted in one of the many linux file systems.
The basic linux setup is , /swap partition, /root(base) partition,
In addition you can have /boot partition, /home partition, and
many others. In linux /swap is the equivelant of windblows
virtual memory,which is a file with preset limits,whereas in
linux it's a partition.
I know nothing of your hardware situation, cannot comment.
John
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