On Sun 14 Dec 03, 12:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:13:06PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > btw, is there such a thing as non destructively changing NTFS to VFAT? > > i hate not being able to write to my windows drive from within linux. > > Unfortunately, there's not, but check out > http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ > > They've got working r/w to NTFS by > a) Use Linux ro NTFS driver to mount partition > b) find ntfs.sys file on NTFS drive > c) use Wine-type layer to load ntfs.sys driver to remout drive in r/w > > I haven't tried it yet (I reinstalled Win2K on fat32 2 weeks ago) but > I've heard it works great. I'm actually considering putting a small > NTFS partition on my drive just to play with it.
that's actually pretty cool, although for some reason, a little scary. :) i'll definitely look into that. seems like ntfs has been ro in the kernel for ages now. i wonder what the problem could be... pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
