Slackware 14.0 and NTFS.

stf92 · 12-19-2012, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

I am quite puzzled why you want to use a NTFS file-system although you don't plan to use Windows. Care to explain what advantages you expect from using NTFS?

It was my mistake in post #1. In fact, I do use Windows. I use it sometimes to run Nero (when cdrecord or growisofs do not do what I want) and some other programs. So, besides the Windows partition I have an extra NTFS partition mainly to store large downloads that I must later write onto CD/DVDs.

@allend: thank you allend for your post.I didn't know that.

kabamaru · 12-19-2012, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by stf92

It was my mistake in post #1. In fact, I do use Windows. I use it sometimes to run Nero (when cdrecord or growisofs do not do what I want) and some other programs. So, besides the Windows partition I have an extra NTFS partition mainly to store large downloads that I must later write onto CD/DVDs.

I use huge xfs partitions to store my data. I have a windows xp virtual machine that has read-only access to those partitions and use nero to create bluray backups of that data. No need for lousy ntfs partitions ;-)

The only usefulness for ntfs nowadays (at least for me) is external disks, for compatibility across different operating systems, media playing devices etc.