Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:18:03 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. Easiest answer is to download a newer kernel, configure it and be sure that you include "ntfs filesystem support". It works just fine, albiet a bit dangerous if you want to have multiple programs running at the same time, all reading/writing files in that ntfs filesystem.
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