From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 19:32:17 EDT
> That sounds like a good idea unless you need something other than NTFS
> for data sharing between OSs (Solaris can read/write FAT32 but not
> ntfs - I don't know about Linux).
Linux can read ntfs OK, but the ntfs write support was only recently
released and is supposed to
be unreliable. BTW, I only discovered this recently, when my desktop HD
crashed and when I installed
W2K on the replacement drive I let it format as ntfs. (I like to use a
small loopback Linux as a Windows
backup and recovery utility - it is much easier to do a full OS restore if
one is running from an OS other
than the one being restored. Windows users will generally use DOS for this,
but on some machines - particularly
laptops - the easy CD and networking support of Linux is definitely
convenient. Alas, I now cannot do this
unless I convert the HD from ntfs to Fat or Fat32.)
David R.
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