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It works great, but it's a read-only system. When I use wine to run programs, I kinda want the added write support too. Like when I am running one of those great DOS games and I want to save a highscore or something, but nothing more than that. Is writing possible?
Originally posted by orange400 It works great, but it's a read-only system. When I use wine to run programs, I kinda want the added write support too. Like when I am running one of those great DOS games and I want to save a highscore or something, but nothing more than that. Is writing possible?
Sure is. However it's still not stable, and even the creators say not to use it yet. But if you wish to, read further up that link. It requires a kernel recompile and the use of some tools. And even then, you are still risking losing everything on your ntfs drive. You have the choice to either convert to fat32 or setup wine on a linux partition with a fake C drive et al.
Originally posted by MasterC Sure is. However it's still not stable, and even the creators say not to use it yet. But if you wish to, read further up that link. It requires a kernel recompile and the use of some tools. And even then, you are still risking losing everything on your ntfs drive. You have the choice to either convert to fat32 or setup wine on a linux partition with a fake C drive et al.
Cool
well of course the write support is not stable
but you can use ntfsfix to recover any filesystem corruption
i have been using ntfs r/w for about two weeks and till now
i have no problems
but you have to use the ntfsfix
(available from the sourceforge site) http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsfix.html
Yeah, there are alot of things that aren't stable that I still suggest using, but when the developers of apps say not to use them yet, I usually heed those types of warnings I'd venture to guess that if everyone using NTFS did use write support, even with the ntfsfix tool, that'd there would be a good percentage who would walk away with corrupted drives and lost data. However, if you feel safe in doing that, by all means, test away!
Originally posted by MasterC Yeah, there are alot of things that aren't stable that I still suggest using, but when the developers of apps say not to use them yet, I usually heed those types of warnings I'd venture to guess that if everyone using NTFS did use write support, even with the ntfsfix tool, that'd there would be a good percentage who would walk away with corrupted drives and lost data. However, if you feel safe in doing that, by all means, test away!
Cool
of course massive data corruption is possible is large amount of data is written
the ntfsfix utitity enables the ntfs volume dirty bit
so that next time windows boot up the volume is checked for data integrity
and i and everyone who used ntfs write would use the feature only when absolutely necessary
of course it is in the development phase
i read the technical documentation of ntfs
(also available on source-forge page)
and write support as said is quite dangerous!!!!
Originally posted by rch of course massive data corruption is possible is large amount of data is written
the ntfsfix utitity enables the ntfs volume dirty bit
so that next time windows boot up the volume is checked for data integrity
and i and everyone who used ntfs write would use the feature only when absolutely necessary
of course it is in the development phase
i read the technical documentation of ntfs
(also available on source-forge page)
and write support as said is quite dangerous!!!!
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I'd venture to guess that if everyone using NTFS did use write support, even with the ntfsfix tool, that'd there would be a good percentage who would walk away with corrupted drives and lost data. However, if you feel safe in doing that, by all means, test away! 
