best howto for writing to ntfs (windows) drive

BeckinNC · 12-08-2005, 05:10 PM

I want to be able to read and write to my windows drive in SuSE 10.0 AND read/write to my Linux drive in XP. Is this something that you can do with Linux? Where could a Newbie get a good HOWTO or book that could help me achieve this?

hopesfall · 12-08-2005, 07:03 PM

From my understanding, Windows cannot read/write to a Linux partition. Linux cannot write to an NTFS partition. FAT32 is the best file system that both Windows and Linux can read/write to.

cs-cam · 12-08-2005, 07:31 PM

This is the best howto on this topic you will find.

HOWTO: Write to NTFS in Linux
Don't.

If you try doing it with the drivers in the kernel you will break your data. Captive-NTFS is supposed to work but even still, don't use it if you have data you cannot risk losing.

BeckinNC · 12-08-2005, 09:31 PM

thank you for the advice! i really appreciate your input. how then can you really share files on a dual boot system?

cs-cam · 12-08-2005, 09:53 PM

FAT32. Both Linux and Windows can safely read to it and write from it.

spooon · 12-08-2005, 10:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hopesfall

From my understanding, Windows cannot read/write to a Linux partition.

There are many programs / drivers out there that allow Windows to read/write to various Linux filesystems. For ext2/ext3, here are some of them:
* http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm (read only)
and the following IFS drivers for NT/2000/XP:
* http://www.fs-driver.org/
* http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm (read only)
* http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/

BeckinNC · 12-09-2005, 06:53 AM

Thank you very much!

That is exactly what I want to be able to do.

I will play around with that once I get home.