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Linux NTFS support to get better

Linux NTFS Project

Apparently, anyway. Slashdot seem to have the story that the Linux NTFS project have released a beta version of their NTFS driver for Linux that should prove very useful for those (like me) running Windows + Linux dual-boots.

At the moment, using Fedora’s kmod-ntfs (available in the Livna repository), I can read my Windows NTFS partitions in Linux, but not write to them. The Linux NTFS project claim to have read/write support.

Now I would test this out, but it being a beta and my data being important, I won’t try it out until I’ve got a backup of everything done (I don’t know that it might not do something terrible to my data).

Anyway, good work and thanks to the Linux NTFS team.

This post was written by Peter on Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 20:56. Filed under Linux.

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  1. Marc wrote:

    Good news! Though I will probably wait quite a while for them to work the inevitable bugs out.

    Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 21:20 | Permalink |

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  1. Gizbuzz on Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 21:18

    Linux NTFS Project gear up for beta release…

    Slashdot have got the story that the Linux NTFS Project are now close to making a beta release of their software to allow easy access to Windows data on a dual-boot Windows + Linux system.

    NTFS (an acronym for the New Technology File System) is the f…

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