Re: Current status of NTFS support

Jesper Juhl (juhl@eisenstein.dk)
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:31:41 +0200


Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:

>
> Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment?

>
I'll let someone who knows about that answer that part ;)

> Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does anyone
> know if FIPS can split a partition safely that was created under Windows
> 2000/NT? It worked fine for Windows 98, but I'm a little worried about what
> might happen if I try to use it on an NTFS partition.
>
Last time I checked (about 2 months ago) FIPS was not able to work with
NTFS partitions - you'll probably have to use Partition Magic or
something similar to modify the NTFS partition (but why not just create
the NTFS partition of a smaller size and then use the unpartitioned
space for a ext2 partition?).

Best regards,
Jesper Juhl - juhl@eisenstein.dk

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