Subject: Re: Questions
i-robot@gci.net
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 14:51:04 AKDT
You shouldn't write to it either...It is possible to write, but it's like smoking near the gas pump.
Might explode, it might not...
Adam
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From: shortpier <shortpier@shortpier.is-a-geek.com>
Date: Sunday, May 11, 2003 10:40 am
Subject: Re: Questions
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 16:05, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:17, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I disappeared from the net for a while, but now I'm back.
> > > I just bought and installed Red Hat 9. I really like it a lot.
> > > However, I have the same dual-boot setup as before.Windows XP
> and Red
> > > Hat. My XP is the NTFS file system and so I can't play my
> music with
> > > XMMS cause I can't access XP. Is there a setting I can change or
> > > something so I can play my music without having to reboot into
> XP?
> >
> > The only reliable way to access data on a NTFS partition from
> Linux is
> > though a network share. A dual boot system can't do this of
> course :)
> > The easiest way would be to create a partition formatted with
> fat32 to
> > share between Linux & XP. Both OS's can read/write to fat32.
> >
> > You may be able to enable ntfs file system support in the kernel and
> > read the files on XP from Linux. The ntfs support in Linux is
> rumored to
> > sort of work for reads and ,if you care about your data, not
> reccomended> for writes.
>
> I just installed Mandrake 9.1 (PLF) on my laptop. I was able to
> resizethe NTFS file system and It mounts it as /mnt/windows...
> The question
> is if it is readonly or read-write. I can read from it but I have not
> tried to write to it.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Shortpeir
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