Quote of the day

[NetworkGeezer]

Hey Grandma, want to read your windows XP files in Linux? It's so easy, anyone can do it!

tar zxvf fuse-2.5.2.tar.gz
cd fuse-2.5.2
./configure && make && sudo make install

then :

tar zxvf ntfsprogs-1.13.0.tar.gz
cd ntfsprogs-1.13.0
./configure --enable-fuse-module && make && sudo make install

Hello? Grandma? You forgot to ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c -o fmask=0111,dmask=0,succeed_chmod !

Grandma?

[CyberNerd]

want to read your linux files in XP...............

[NetworkGeezer]

I copied the post verbatim so it suggests that reading NTFS partitions is difficult in Linux when the opposite is the case.

The actual problem the poster was referring to was how to reliably write to NTFS paritions. There has been no satisfactory free solution.

[Geoff]

Blame MS. If they relased the specs for NTFS we'd have stable read and write support in a matter of days. As it is, we have to clean room engineer it. However this isn't legal in most of Europe and the US any more due to the EUCD/DMCA. Leaving it up to the good folks in the Far East to sort out.