OSNews > Thread > "RE[2]: Testing" by Adamal

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Sep 2005 19:41 UTC

Windows uses a file system called NTFS, today's Linux distributions primarily use ext3, and like two warring tribes, the two barely speak. Fortunately, there's a handy tool from Paragon Software Group called NTFS for Linux, which acts like an interpreter for these battling nations. For Linux users hampered by lack of communication with Windows, Paragon's NTFS for Linux presents an elegant and effective solution.

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RE[2]: Testing

by Adamal on Fri 9th Sep 2005 20:13 UTC in reply to "RE: Testing"

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2005-07-06

So they can read and write to an ntfs partition under linux.

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RE[3]: Testing

by on Fri 9th Sep 2005 20:19 in reply to "RE[2]: Testing"

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And why won't I add 150 more and buy windows. I am happy with Fat32 support and besides Windows Vista is moving to WinFS now.

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RE[4]: Testing

by on Fri 9th Sep 2005 22:00 in reply to "RE[3]: Testing"

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And why won't I add 150 more and buy windows. I am happy with Fat32 support and besides Windows Vista is moving to WinFS now.

Windows Vista is going to use NTFS. WinFS is not really a filesystem, just a layer above NTFS.

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RE[4]: Testing

by fsck on Fri 9th Sep 2005 22:20 in reply to "RE[3]: Testing"

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*Sigh* not this again! Windows vista will continue to use NTFS. Winfs is a file storage subsystem that will run ontop of NTFS. see here for more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfs

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RE[3]: Testing

by on Fri 9th Sep 2005 20:30 in reply to "RE[2]: Testing"

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I prefer using captive-ntfs which uses WXP original driver to read/write ntfs filesystems without any limitations and of course is FREE, why I would be using linux (Open source) to waste 150$ in additional software to access privative file systems??

There are free alternatives that work fine

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RE[4]: Testing

by on Fri 9th Sep 2005 21:26 in reply to "RE[3]: Testing"

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NTFS read/write support has been in the linux kernel for more than a year. So the question is, why pay for something that is already there for free?

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