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Subject: Re: [OT] Linux distro that will read an NTFS partition... need some help[OT]

Author: Guido

Date: 06:07:22 02/09/04

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On February 09, 2004 at 00:48:29, Peter Skinner wrote:

>I am only posting this here as I know many people here use Linux.
>
>I installed Red Hat 9.0 tonight and I can not mount my NTFS partition as the Red
>Hat kernel will only read FAT/FAT32 partitions.
>
>Right now the drive is NTFS, and is 35.1 GB and I have heard that NTFS is better
>for that size of a partition. Would I kill anything converting it to FAT32?
>Would I lose performance?
>
>Is there a Linux distro that supports mounting an NTFS partition?
>
>Peter.


I use Linux (an old Suse 6.4) and from Linux I can only read (and copy) NTFS
files created under Windows 2000, but from Windows I can read (and copy) Linux
files using explore2fs, a free software under GNU license.

Ciao
Guido



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