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Not sure is this the right place to ask, but does linux support complete rw rights to NTFS formatted partition? This might turn me to linux, since I heard that freebsd is only able to r...
Yes and no. Yes there are ways to read and write to windows. No, they'll never be 100% reliable because Windows doesn't have an open filesystem. I only use NTFS writing during extreme cases of recovering someones XP install (in which their options are limited to a reinstall anyway). I've had success and failure with it. If it's critical data, I wouldn't do it. If you make backups and can afford to reinstall windows if something borks up, feel free to give it a whirl. But personally, I still use a shared FAT32 partition for files I want in both linux and windows.
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