John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote:
> > I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs
> > with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ?
> > I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both.
> > Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want program source,
> > images and videofiles to be accessible from Linux.
> >
> Linux DOES support FAT32 using the VFAT filesystem type. Don't know
> about NTFS, though.
> John
Haven't actually done this myself, but Linux does support NTFS read
mode, and the write mode is in alpha/beta mode, i.e. use at own risk.
The read-only mode is reported to be fairly stable, though. I believe
you would neet to recompile your kernel to enable these options though.
Monte
