Hi!
> Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
> still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to me
> because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office laptop
> is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000.
> Thanks to all who offered suggestions, both on the list and privately.
Rather
> than answer them all individually, I'm going to respond in this one
message.
>
> Unfortunately the upgrade is not going to be done by me, but by our PC
support
> team. Our laptops originally were set up with two FAT
I have installed a Win2000 and you do not have to switch to NTFS. W2000
can be installed on a FAT32 partition. I have installed it on a FAT32
partition and hasn't caused me any problems.
You might wanna give it a try.
good luck,
/me
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Where d
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> So how risky is this?
Risky enough. I had to chkdsk once for half an hour after copying on an
NTFS 5. Of course, I'm not familiar with the internals of it.
>
> Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does anyone
> know
At 03:07 21/04/2001, Lee Leahu wrote:
>On Friday 20 April 2001 20:39, you wrote:
> > Lee Leahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>my boss rememebres reading a very indepth article in one of the msdn
>magazines. i could scan the articles in and compress them and send them
>to the developers.
Since you
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>Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
>still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to me
>because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office laptop
>is going to be "upgraded" from W
Lee Leahu wrote:
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> On Friday 20 April 2001 20:39, you wrote:
> > Lee Leahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to
> > > the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous, and what are the
> > > developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem saf
On Friday 20 April 2001 20:39, you wrote:
> Lee Leahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to
> > the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous, and what are the
> > developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem safe?
>
> It's dangerous because
Lee Leahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to
> the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous, and what are the
> developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem safe?
It's dangerous because NTFS is a proprietary format, and the full
rules fo
From: "Lee Leahu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to
> the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous, and what are the
> developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem safe?
My understanding of the situation is that writing to an NTFS volume is not
would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to
the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous, and what are the
developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem safe?
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> Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
> still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to
> me because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office
> laptop is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000. Of c
At 23:33 20/04/2001, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the
> upgrade. Does anyone
>
>Oll you should need is a boot floppy to get back into linux and fix
>the MBR (rerun lilo?) after the Windows install.
Rerunning lilo is corre
At 23:08 20/04/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that
>it's still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration.
It is extremely dangerous. Never use unless you are desperate. It creates
corrupt files and especially directories. I
Thanks to all who offered suggestions, both on the list and privately. Rather
than answer them all individually, I'm going to respond in this one message.
Unfortunately the upgrade is not going to be done by me, but by our PC support
team. Our laptops originally were set up with two FAT32 par
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> partition. The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard drive, allocating
> the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and reinstalling Notes after
> installing Windows 2000 . That means bye-bye FAT32 partition and hello NTFS. I
> can't mount it read-only bec
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> Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment?
>
I'll let someone who knows about that answer that part ;)
> Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does anyone
> know if FIPS can split a partition safely that was created und
Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to me
because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office laptop
is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000. Of course,
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