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| *kryogenix* |
 Nov 29 2005, 10:45 PM
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Are there any distros that can read NTFS formatted partitions? I'm planning on dual booting between windows and linux now that I have my computer built, and I want both OSes to be able to access the one big partition. This is how I have my partitions set up if that helps:
C:\ - System Primary drive (20 gb) <--- the partition that I currently have windows on D:\ - Logical Unformatted (4 gb) <--- the partition that I plan on installing linux to E:\ - Logical Unformatted <--- (125 gb) <--- the data partition that I want both OSes to be able to access. So, yeah, if anyone with experience in this stuff *cough*mipadi*cough* could help me out, that would be great, mmmmkay? |
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| *mipadi* |
Nov 30 2005, 01:59 AM
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NTFS support is built into the Linux kernel. There are, however, some glitches. For example, NTFS support is not loaded immediately upon startup, which of course means that the Linux kernel and the bootloader cannot reside on an NTFS partition, because the Linux kernel cannot read NTFS volumes upon startup.
Basically, once you get the computer booted, you should be able to mount an NTFS partition just like any other drive. However, you cannot write to an NTFS partition without other extensions--you can only read them. This is fine as long as you only want to access files that are on an NTFS partition, and not write them. (There are extensions that allow you to write to NTFS partitions from Linux, but they are highly experimental right now, which means that they often times cause more problems than they are worth.) As far as specific distros, I think most new distros should be able to handle NTFS partitions. NTFS support has been present since kernel v2.2; v2.6 features some write support, but it is sketchy, as noted above. So as long as the distro has at least v2.2 of the Linux kernel, it should be able to handle NTFS volumes. (The problem with all this, of course, is that Microsoft guards the specs for NTFS very closely, so everything must be reverse-engineered. But that's fodder for another discussion.  )
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| *kryogenix* |
Nov 30 2005, 05:05 PM
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Alright, formatted D:\ to FAT32 and E:\ to NTFS. Right now, I'm looking to install Kubuntu 5.10, second choice is Fedora Core 4.
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| *mipadi* |
Nov 30 2005, 05:10 PM
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Are you going to format D: to ext3 when installing Linux? Also, is this a single disk, or multiple disks?
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| *kryogenix* |
Nov 30 2005, 05:43 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Nov 30 2005, 5:10 PM) Are you going to format D: to ext3 when installing Linux? Also, is this a single disk, or multiple disks?  A single, 160gb SATA II disk. I think I'll use ext2. [edit]Maybe I'll use ext3. Never used it before though. |
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| *mipadi* |
Nov 30 2005, 07:02 PM
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ext3 is pretty much a journalled ext2. (ext3 also adds a few other features regarding indexing and resizing.)
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Dec 3 2005, 02:37 AM
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 Wow, i dont know whats going on...  Group: Member Posts: 1,439 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,977 |
QUOTE(kryogenix @ Nov 30 2005, 5:05 PM) Alright, formatted D:\ to FAT32 and E:\ to NTFS. Right now, I'm looking to install Kubuntu 5.10, second choice is Fedora Core 4. Kubuntu, Nice.... |
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